I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what…

Oscar Wilde
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2007). Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, p.153, Wordsworth Editions
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