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Rather Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their…
- His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do…
- Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell…
- every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion.…
- I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
- There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple…
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