My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. ✨ O…

Oscar Wilde
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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2016). The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition, p.76, Bloomsbury Publishing
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