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• The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
  -- Oscar Wilde...
• Sound English common sense--the inherited stupidity of the race. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
• The good ended happily and the bad ended unhappily.
  That is what fiction means. --Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earne...
• The pursuit of power is the quest for the unattainable by the unphilosophical though the tactics of the unspeakable.
• Don't give a woman advice: one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
  -- Oscar Wilde...
• To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune
  to lose both looks like carelessness. -- Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earne...
• It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist.
  It produced a false impression. --Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earne...
• On an occaision of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind.
  It becomes a pleasure. --Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earne...