I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when onl…

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2007). The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde, p.971, Wordsworth Editions
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