Passing through customs in New York, Wilde declared, "I have nothing to declare except" this
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Talk:Oscar Wilde - Wikiquote  Wilde said something like "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. .... "I have nothing to declare except my genius." .... famous sayings, which he is supposed to have said while passing through a customs checkpoint in New York.
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resources quotations - Oscar Wilde Society of America  I have nothing to declare except my genius. OSCAR WILDE, 1882 at New York Customs ... First, the possibility that Wilde did not make the remark at the at the time of passing through Customs, but ... He may even have wished he had said it.2.
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This Day in Quotes: I have nothing to declare except my genius ...  Jan 4, 2016 ... I have nothing to declare except my genius  the famous Oscar Wilde quip ... when Wilde left the ship and went to the New York Customs House, where ... In the new book Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America ... it first in his 1912 study of the author, the quip already had passed into legend.
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I Have Nothing To Declare Except My Genius - Oscar Wilde in America  DUBIOUS QUOTATION: I have nothing to declare except my genius. ... to Oscar Wilde at New York Customs at the start of his lecture tour of America in 1882. ... 55); but still there is no mention of the New York incident. ... One is reminded that much history, especially quotation, is apocryphal: too good not to have been said.
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Did Oscar Wilde really say "I have nothing to declare except my ...  May 12, 2013 ... Our English teacher said in a class that Oscar Wilde said this, but I've ... have said [it] while passing through a customs checkpoint in New York.
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Free Flashcards about FAMOUS QUOTES - StudyStack  ON JULY 14, 1789 THIS FRENCH KING WROTE IN HIS DIARY, "NOTHING" ... IN 1690 THIS ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER WROTE, "WHEREVER LAW ENDS,...
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A Border Passage - The New York Times  CHAPTER ONE. A Border Passage From Cairo to America -- A Woman's Journey. By LEILA AHMED Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Read the Review. Egypt: The...
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No taxation without representation - Wikipedia  "No Taxation Without Representation" is a slogan originating during the 1750s and 1760s that summarized a primary grievance of the American colonists in the Thirteen Colonies, which was one of the major causes of the American .... Jared Ingersoll Snr., colonial agent for Connecticut, wrote to his American colleague, the...
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Antoine de Saint Exupry - Wikiquote  "Letter to an American" (1944) ... It seems that perfection is attained, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away. ... there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away .
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Sarah~Baby**~'s Blog - Hoverspot  Apr 18, 2008 ... By law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain ... A slander case in Thailand was once settled by a witness who said nothing at all. ... Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment: Prohibition. .... via wire to the War Department: "I will not move my army without onions." Within...
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I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation: And Other Quotations ...  I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don't interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty, one of Oscar Wilde's characters says.
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Mahatma Gandhi - Wikiquote  He led the struggle for India's independence from British colonial rule. Victory attained by ... The Court declared that the Kaffirs have no legal right to travel by tram. .... Quoted in Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches (1922), p. 144. ... 1922). Nonviolence is the first article of my faith.
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Oscar Wilde | Irish author | Britannica.com  Oscar Wilde, in full Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (born Oct. 16, 1854, Dublin, Ire. ... Wilde went, on successive scholarships, to Trinity College, Dublin (187174), ... announcing on his arrival at customs in New York City that he had nothing to .... In May 1897 Wilde was released, a bankrupt, and immediately went to...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: Address Accepting the Presidential  The appearance before a National Convention of its nominee for President, to be ... ignorance of what has happened for weeks until he is formally notified of that event ... And you can accept my pledge that I will leave no doubt or ambiguity on where I ..... I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
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...but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death ...  Benjamin Franklin #taxes #quoteoftheday | See more about Benjamin ... You have no right to DEMAND a damn thing from this country. ..... In this world nothing can be certain. except death and taxes. by Benjamin Franklin #2333 ... We're constantly reminded of it  in quotes, in books, in movies, and in our own lives.
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The Timeline History of Celebrating (and Not Celebrating ...  Oct 10, 2016 ... The holiday has been controversial practically since its inception. ... as early as 1792, the 300th anniversary of his journey across the Atlantic. ... First celebration of Italian-American Heritage in New York ..... Now, that they are fully assimilated, it promotes diversity to acknowledge that the same event affected...
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No taxation without representation - Wikipedia  "No Taxation Without Representation" is a slogan originating during the 1750s and 1760s that .... And in this letter they recommend to him a pamphlet, wrote by one of their ..... In November 2000, the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles began issuing license plates bearing the slogan "Taxation without representation".
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Oscar Wilde - Wikiquote  1.5 Lady Windermere's Fan (1892); 1.6 A Woman of No Importance (1893); 1.7 A Few Maxims for the Instruction of ..... I can resist everything except temptation.
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FRANK SINATRA LYRICS - My Way - A-Z Lyrics  Lyrics to "My Way" song by FRANK SINATRA: And now, the end is near And so I face the final ... I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption
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No Taxation without Representation - United States History  The role of No Taxation without Representation in the history of the United ... related issues of taxing the colonists and their representation in Parliament. ... in the Stamp Act Congress in 1765, but few other delegates supported him. ... If taxes were necessary, then the Americans wanted their own assemblies to impose them.
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Theodore Roosevelt - Wikiquote  I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both. ... Theodore repeating what his brother, Elliot Roosevelt, said when Theodore reached his home in New York City to find .... Response when a dignitary asked if he could better control his daughter, as quoted in Hail to the Chiefs : My Life...