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Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.


Larry Wilde

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OSCAR WILDE There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. ...
OSCAR WILDE When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old,...
OSCAR WILDE There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the...
OSCAR WILDE The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.
STUART WILDE The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, educ...
OSCAR WILDE Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite en...
OSCAR WILDE In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the hom...
OSCAR WILDE The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
OSCAR WILDE I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated serious...
OSCAR WILDE Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes t...
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