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Quote by Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth centu

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. – Oscar Wilde

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Self-Control
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Oscar Wilde
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. – Oscar Wilde

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Prayer
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. – Oscar Wilde

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Money
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Oscar Wilde
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Other Quotes from
Death
category

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it. – Elias Canetti

Category:
Death

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. – Lewis Mumford

Category:
Death

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives. – Christy Turlington

Category:
Death

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death. – Christy Turlington

Category:
Death

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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that theyre better than other human beings. – James A. Baldwin

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Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Reform, Correction

I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases… is an old-fashioned idea. – Ron Paul

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Home

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus. – Jessica Savitch

Category:
Attitude