Oscar Wilde Quotes
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It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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Envy is an insult to oneself.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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Fage does not make great yogurt.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
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The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
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What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.
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Death does not exist.
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Our duty is to be patient.
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It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
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The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.
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Considering the greater amounts of energy which can be collected and stored in suitable experimental form in capacitors, one could expect to deliver radiated energy for some time from them.
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I give strong advice, but I don't expect it to be followed.
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I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.
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I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.
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Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.
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So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
