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Quote by Oscar Wilde
The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art

The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. – Oscar Wilde

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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. – Oscar Wilde

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Life
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. – Oscar Wilde

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best
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Men always want to be a womans first love – women like to be a mans last romance. – Oscar Wilde

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The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties. – H. L. Mencken

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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say. – Ramsey Clark

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The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called significant literature will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. – Raymond Chandler

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I never know when I press these whether I am going to blow up Massachusetts or start the project. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Envy is ignorance. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy. – Catherine Bell

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The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power. – Andrew Jackson

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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

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