Quote by Oscar Wilde
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his p

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. – Oscar Wilde

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Oscar Wilde

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving ones self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. – Oscar Wilde

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. – Oscar Wilde

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No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus. – Cicero

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No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. – William Ralph Inge

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When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under. – Rosellen Brown

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We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Pulvis et umbra,” 1888

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Its easy being a humorist when youve got the whole government working for you. – Will Rogers

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