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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' ↗

— Robin Williams

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A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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