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    1. That’s what Trump would say – he isn’t very clued up. But when you’re the boss man it doesn’t pay to be bothered by information, it slows down your impulses and schemes.

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  4. Oscar Wilde came up with an explanation of this in The Picture of Dorian Gray.
    This is a ponder piece for the end of the line!
    Dorian has his portrait painted as a young man. The portrait takes on Dorian’s sins and his signs of aging. Dorian spends 18 years living a hedonistic lifestyle. Ultimately, Dorian dies trying to break the curse that the painting has cast over his life.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde | Summary & Analysis
    Study.com https://study.com › … › English 101: English Literature
    and, for clarifying medicine swallow this.
    While academics ponder on this the poor starve, the babies and mothers die; the fires burn.
    What is the main lesson of Dorian Gray?
    James’s Gazette, that Dorian Gray “is a story with a moral. And the moral is this: All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment” (Wilde 248). Aestheticism does well to condemn the renunciation of desires, but it is an excessive obedience to these desires that is subversively dangerous.
    The Conflict Between Aestheticism and Morality in Oscar Wilde’s The …
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  5. C’mon those monkey glands have performed well – got me through to 119 and still USA President (or what’ s left of it). 120 years, here I come!

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