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Quote by Oscar Wilde
The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good en

The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. – Oscar Wilde

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I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works. – Oscar Wilde

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. – Oscar Wilde

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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. – Clarence Darrow

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Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture. – W. Somerset Maugham

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