Oscar Wilde's Quote - The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must

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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. – 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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It is only by not paying ones bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. – Oscar Wilde

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The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. – Oscar Wilde

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