Quote by Oscar Wilde
History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by mo

History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. – Oscar Wilde

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, its dead for you. – Oscar Wilde

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Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. – Woodrow Wilson

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I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics. – George Osborne

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Negative politics have always been around. – Karl Rove

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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. – Thomas Jefferson

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