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Quote by Oscar Wilde
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

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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Generations
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Oscar Wilde
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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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Property
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Oscar Wilde
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Other Quotes from
Humankind
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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease… and throw himself into roils and labors. – Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, 1787

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Humankind

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Humankind

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. – George Bernard Shaw

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Humankind

Every human being is a repeated question asked to the spirit of the Universe. – Mihai Eminescu, translated by Oana Platon

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Humankind

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Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe? – Maurice Mascaranhas

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I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. – Peter Jennings

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Religion

Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water. – Chinese Proverb

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Fame

and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. – Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

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