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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

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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. – Oscar Wilde

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Property
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Oscar Wilde
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. – Oscar Wilde

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good
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Oscar Wilde
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. – David Mamet

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Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. – Aeschylus

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Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. – Francis Bacon, Essays

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Patrick Henry did not say, Give me absolutely safety or give me death. America is supposed to be about freedom. – John Stossel

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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. – John Burroughs

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The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. – Italo Calvino

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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. – Georges Clemenceau

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