Quote by Oscar Wilde
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. – Oscar Wilde

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Be Yourself
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. – Oscar Wilde

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good
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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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Aristocracy
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. – Thomas A. Edison

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What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. – Albert Pike

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The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. – Victor Hugo

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My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus – there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball. – David Duchovny

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Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution. – Mary Daly

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