Quote #11
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
More from Oscar Wilde
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- The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the s…
- A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.
- A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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- Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I, do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
- We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.