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Quote by Oscar Wilde
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind i

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. – Oscar Wilde

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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on. – Oscar Wilde

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Sunshine
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Oscar Wilde
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly. – Oscar Wilde

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good
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Oscar Wilde
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Other Quotes from
Illness, Disease, Sickness
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When an elderly woman was asked why she was standing in line to buy stamps from a teller when she could have used a stamp machine she replied: The machine wont ask me about my arthritis! – Source Unknown

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Illness, Disease, Sickness

For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none, If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it. – Mother Goose

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Illness, Disease, Sickness

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. – Louis Dudek

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Illness, Disease, Sickness

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If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf. – Nikita Khrushchev

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I get along very well with the cast of 30 Rock. I guess I bring a certain quirkiness to the show as well. Im just thankful they keep asking me. I didnt think I was going to be asked back so every time they say, We want you back, Im screaming. Im jumping up and down and screaming. – Sherri Shepherd

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thankful

Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank. – Rose Macaulay

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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. – Orson Scott Card

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Writing