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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#exists #individuals #mental #only #real

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#family #family life #fathers #heard #life

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#conversation #last #refuge #unimaginative #weather

Only the shallow know themselves. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#only #shallow #themselves

The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done. ↗

— Charles Williams

#against #back #church #done #feel

We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly. ↗

— Bill Williams

#am #bored #by the people #fly #i

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. ↗

— Charles Williams

#charitable #contrition #encourage #every #exhibit

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven. ↗

— Charles Williams

#both #broken #come #down #forgive

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State. ↗

— Dar Williams

#got #looking #really #state #tall

Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world. ↗

— Dar Williams

#decide #everyone #going #how #lives