Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there a…

Oscar Wilde
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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1997). Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis, p.544, Wordsworth Editions
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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1997). Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

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