"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

Wilde, Oscar on democracy
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"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on advice
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"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity."

Wilde, Oscar on abstinence
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"He that dies pays all his debts."

Shakespeare, William on debt
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"Words pay no debts."

Shakespeare, William on debt
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"Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!"

Shakespeare, William on age and aging   

"I wasted time, and now time doth waste me."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"A man is a god in ruins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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