I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It m…

Oscar Wilde
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1997). Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis, p.652, Wordsworth Editions
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1997). Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis, p.652, Wordsworth Editions

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