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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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Pray dont talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. – Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. – Henry Van Dyke

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The sky and the strong wind have moved the spirit inside me till I am carried away trembling with joy. – Uvavnuk

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Truly, were I every evening to depict sunrise, and every morning to see it, still I should cry, like the children, Once more, once more! – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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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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