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Quote by Oscar Wilde
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. – Oscar Wilde

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Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. – Oscar Wilde

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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops. – Oscar Wilde

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