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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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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. – Oscar Wilde

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Marriage
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Oscar Wilde
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about lifes sores the better. – Oscar Wilde

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Beauty
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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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[A]t present my chief work is on the manuscripts of the library—a blessed lot, as nothing could be more interesting, as bringing me into close touch with the ancients, to whom I now belong. – James L. Whitney, “Reminiscences of an Old Librarian,” November 1909 #oldsoul

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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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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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