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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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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. – Oscar Wilde

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Sympathy
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Oscar Wilde
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. – Oscar Wilde

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great
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Oscar Wilde
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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. – Oscar Wilde

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Career, Vocation
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Other Quotes from
Sky & Clouds
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A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Sky & Clouds

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. – Willa Sibert Cather

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Sky & Clouds

Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. – Ojibwe Proverb

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Sky & Clouds

It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold. – Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter XLII

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Sky & Clouds

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My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question. – David Ogden Stiers

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