Quote by Oscar Wilde
If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its dutie

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

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

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

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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? – Natalie Clifford Barney

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I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, “Get the hell off my property.” – Joan Rivers

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Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us. – Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. – Maria Edgeworth

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