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Quote by Oscar Wilde
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude

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

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position. – Oscar Wilde

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Men
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Oscar Wilde
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. – Oscar Wilde

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good
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Oscar Wilde
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. – Oscar Wilde

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Prayer
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Oscar Wilde
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My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true. – Lenny Kravitz

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I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. – Harry Dean Stanton

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Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart… good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, its done. – John Mayer

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In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. – Voltaire

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. – Thomas Carlyle

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Its easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them. – Sheryl Sandberg

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