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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Cynics and Cynicism
Oscar Wilde

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What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
Slander
Oscar Wilde

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When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
Love Ended
Oscar Wilde

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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
Liberty
Oscar Wilde

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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Prayer
Oscar Wilde

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Motives
Oscar Wilde

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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
Fashion
Oscar Wilde

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.
Republican
Oscar Wilde

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Yes; the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Public
Oscar Wilde

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.
Money
Stuart Wilde

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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.
Nations
Billy Wilder

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France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Nations
Billy Wilder

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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
Choice
Thornton Wilder

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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
Soldier
Thornton Wilder

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Many plays, are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
Plays
Thornton Wilder

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The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.
Animals
Thornton Wilder

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Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
Promises
Thornton Wilder

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As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
Language
George F. Will

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Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
Pessimism
George F. Will

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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
Crime and Criminals
George F. Will

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We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
Children
George F. Will

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Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Human Spirit
Bern Williams

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We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
Growth
Bern Williams

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Books - Reading
Bert Williams

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It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most
Desire
Buck Williams

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun