The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of p…

Oscar Wilde
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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2014). A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies, p.143, Simon and Schuster
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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2014). A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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