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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood. ↗

— Billy Wilder

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Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece's free-spending budget was based. It would be difficult for any country, or intergovernmental organization, to rescue an economy the size of the U.S. if investors were ever to lose faith in our bonds because of our enormous debt. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

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I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

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A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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