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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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commons, get into, House of, House of Commons, the House of Commons
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«It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.»
«The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.»
«Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.»
«Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.»
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