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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

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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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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. – Oscar Wilde

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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. – Oscar Wilde

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