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

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Daughters
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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. – Oscar Wilde

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A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror — and they last longer. – David Lloyd George

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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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Aristocracy is always cruel. – Wendell Phillips

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Lords are lordliest in their wine. – John Milton

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