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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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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. – Oscar Wilde

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. – Oscar Wilde

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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. – George Eliot

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. – Nathaniel Howe

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows. – Gabriel Peri

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