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Quote by Oscar Wilde
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. – Oscar Wilde

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

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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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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Oscar Wilde

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How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. – Khalil Gibran

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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. – H.L. Mencken

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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. – Horace Walpole

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