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Quote by Oscar Wilde
I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that lit

I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. – Oscar Wilde

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. – Oscar Wilde

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Daughters
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Oscar Wilde
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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver. – Oscar Wilde

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Soul
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Sky & Clouds
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Those playful fancies of the mighty sky. – Albert Smith (clouds)

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Sky & Clouds

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sky & Clouds

Thank God, all you who have a spark of rational piety in your hearts, for the glorious commonplace of earth and sky,—for this cloud-embosomed planet in which you pass your lives. – William Smith, Gravenhurst, or Thoughts on Good and Evil, 1862

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Sky & Clouds

High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars… high over the stars sweep the angels… – Heinrich Heine, “Ideas: Book Le Grand,” 1826, translated from German by Charles

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Sky & Clouds

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The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. – John Jay Chapman

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The threat today is not that of the 1930s. Its not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically. – Tony Blair

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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. – George Orwell

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