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You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young m

You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done. – Oscar Wilde

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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. – Oscar Wilde

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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. – Oscar Wilde

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I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for Tis only to them that they are blessings. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third. – Vicomte De Chateaubriand

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It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good — and less trouble! – Mark Twain

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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast. – Johann von Goethe

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