I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. ✨ Osca…

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1997). Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis, p.680, Wordsworth Editions
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