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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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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. – Oscar Wilde

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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. – Oscar Wilde

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. – Oscar Wilde

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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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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. – Willa Cather

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Its all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. – George Bernard Shaw

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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. – D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922

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