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Quote by Oscar Wilde
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer an

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. – Oscar Wilde

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. – Oscar Wilde

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Family
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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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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. – Oscar Wilde

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God answers first the prayers we should have prayed. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Prayer is a triumph, in whatever form. – Terri Guillemets

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Let your prayers be humble, short, but energick. – Countess Dowager of Carlisle, Thoughts in the Form of Maxims addressed to Young

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When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep. – Author Unknown

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