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The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
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There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.
De Profundis (1905) -
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
The picture of Dorian Gray -
There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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