If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you …

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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2007). The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde, p.488, Wordsworth Editions
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