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Quote by Oscar Wilde
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

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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Oscar Wilde
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One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. – Oscar Wilde

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Hunting
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Labor
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Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains. – Washington Irving, letter to Pierre Paris Irving (nephew), 1824 December 7th

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Labor

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born. – John Florio

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Labor

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. – Thomas Jefferson, 1787

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Labor

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. – Attributed to Albert Einstein

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Labor

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Mind your own business. But love your neighbor as yourself. – David C. Hill, ***Dave Does the Blog (hill-kleerup.org/blog)

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Wise Words

Our family life was certainly not intellectual. – Douglass North

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Family

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character. – Matthew Simpson

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Faith

The number of shots taken by an opponent who is out of sight is equal to the square root of the sum of the number of curses heard plus the number of swishes. – Michael Green, The Art of Coarse Golf, 1975

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Golf