Oscar Wilde Quotes About Duty
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Duty is what one expects from others.
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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.
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And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.
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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
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