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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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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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