Quote by Oscar Wilde
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they wa

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. – Oscar Wilde

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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. – Oscar Wilde

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