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Oscar Wilde

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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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Lord Illingworth, Act I

 
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Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence?
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Open your doors and look abroad.
From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before.
In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years.

 
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In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.

 
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