Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2014). …

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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2014). Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane, p.41, Bloomsbury Publishing
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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of th … ▶
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As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2016). Aphorisms, p.50, Osca … ▶

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