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Oscar Wilde Quotes: Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.
         

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.


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Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.



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