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It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
– Oscar Wilde

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  3. Books are a finer world within the world. (1863) – Alexander Smith
  4. A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. – Dean Koontz
  5. I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body. – Leo Tolstoy
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  7. Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer – John Keats
  8. Wisdom is finer than pearls. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  9. The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive. – CS Lewis
  10. I wish I could say I’m low maintenance, but I like some of the finer things in life-¦like a toothbrush. – MA George
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  12. Wish not for treasure you can hold, No gleaming jewels, bright and cold, For finer still than pearl or gold, The treasure of a tale well told… – Brian Holguin
  13. In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. – Oscar Wilde
  14. I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses. – Oscar Wilde
  15. He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one’s eyes, and does not look at him. – Oscar Wilde
  16. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. – Oscar Wilde
  17. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. – Oscar Wilde
  18. Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. – Oscar Wilde
  19. Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. – Oscar Wilde
  20. Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. – Oscar Wilde
  21. Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself – Oscar Wilde
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  24. The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. – Oscar Wilde
  25. Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. – Oscar Wilde
  26. Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better. – Oscar Wilde
  27. Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. – Oscar Wilde
  28. I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say. – Oscar Wilde
  29. Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. – Oscar Wilde
  30. I have a business appointment that I am anxious… to miss. – Oscar Wilde
  31. My dear fellow, it isn’t easy to be anything nowadays. There’s such a lot of beastly competition about. – Oscar Wilde
  32. To realise one’s nature perfectly-”that is what each of us is here for. – Oscar Wilde
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  37. They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance. – Oscar Wilde
  38. You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person! – Oscar Wilde
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  40. Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. – Oscar Wilde

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