Wilde

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“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)