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“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their “Hub,” as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Each class of society has its own requirements; but it may be said that every class teaches the one immediately below it; and if the highest class be ignorant, uneducated, loving display, luxuriousness, and idle, the same spirit will prevail in humbler life.”
—First published in Girls’ Home Companion (1895)