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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

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. – Oscar Wilde

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Career, Vocation
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Oscar Wilde
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I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. – Oscar Wilde

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Sky & Clouds
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Oscar Wilde
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Other Quotes from
Humankind
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In each generation the human mind in every man reverts to its starting-point; each new man is a primitive man. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Humankind

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. – Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, 1945

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Humankind

Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. – Malcolm de Chazal

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Humankind

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. – Erich Fromm, Man for Himself, 1947

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Humankind

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Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. – Marguerite Gardiner

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Beauty

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. – John Stuart Mill

Category:
Men

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. – Mickey Mantle

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Courage

True religion is real living living with all ones soul, with all ones goodness and righteousness. – Albert Einstein

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Religion