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Oscar Wilde
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. ✨ Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays, p.819, GENERAL PRESS
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. ✨ Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays, p.819, GENERAL PRESS

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