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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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Men always want to be a womans first love – women like to be a mans last romance. – Oscar Wilde

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. – Oscar Wilde

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. – Oscar Wilde

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I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises. – Mitt Romney

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The human races prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. – Arnold J. Toynbee

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Bankers – pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. – John Ralston Saul

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Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life. – Henry Van Dyke

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In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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