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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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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. – Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
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I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in gaol is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long. – Oscar Wilde

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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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I dont believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career. – Charlie Chaplin

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The public seldom forgive twice. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

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A man in public life expects to be sneered at — it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself. – Charles Dickens

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