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Quote by Oscar Wilde
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make wha

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. – Oscar Wilde

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Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed. – Oscar Wilde

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Men
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. – Oscar Wilde

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good
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. – Oscar Wilde

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War
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State
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The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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State

The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the States ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners. – Jean Dubuffet

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State

Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else. – Simone Weil

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State

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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State

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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. – Abraham Lincoln

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What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse. – Rudolph Valentino

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