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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

The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. – Oscar Wilde

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Torture
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. – Oscar Wilde

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Money
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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to encourage in others. – Oscar Wilde

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Laziness
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Other Quotes from
Death
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Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of ones lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living. – Gilbert Parker

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Death

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Death

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood – no more – to man, and love to a woman is life or death. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Death

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me. – Dennis Rodman

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Death

Random Quotes

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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Experience

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive. – F. H. Bradley

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Knowledge

I know we cant always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck. – Danica McKellar

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Hope

What Im trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology. – Godfrey Reggio

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Technology