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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
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«There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.»
«The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
demoralize, demoralized, demoralizing, Future of, insecure, The Machine
«There are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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requires, temptations, terrible, yield
«Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.»
«A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.»
«He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
precise, psychological, psychological moment
«It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.»
«Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.»
«Things last either too long, or not long enough,»
«Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Extravagance
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extravagance, extravagances, penury
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