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Quote by Oscar Wilde
I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all tha

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

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

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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Martyr, Martyrdom
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Oscar Wilde
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. – Oscar Wilde

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good
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Oscar Wilde
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Prison
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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. – Evelyn Waugh

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Prison

We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. – John Donne

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Prison

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. – Elizabeth Drew

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Prison

A fly and a flea in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the Flea, Let us fly!
Said the Fly, Let us flee!
So they fled through a flaw in the flue. – Anon.

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Prison

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When you look at our world, the truth is that were all under the influence of politics. – Roland Joffe

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Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends — and hardly ever our own grown children. – Ruth Goode

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Grandparents

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods. – Japanese Proverb

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Laughter

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. – Henry Miller

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Future