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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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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. – Oscar Wilde

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