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Oscar Wilde
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  • Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary.—OSCAR WILDE  (source)
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde.†  (source)
  • As Oscar Wilde once said, 'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune.†  (source)
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  • Postcards of authors are taped to the wall over her desk, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf.†  (source)
  • So tell me about Oscar Wilde.†  (source)
  • Underneath is a collection of Wordsworth poems, a Bible, and a book of plays by Oscar Wilde.†  (source)
  • Oscar Wilde (1854—1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, and poet†  (source)
  • As a consolation, Juvenal Urbino and Fermina Daza brought back the shared memory of a snowy afternoon when they were intrigued by a crowd that defied the storm outside a small bookshop on the Boulevard des Capucines because Oscar Wilde was inside.†  (source)
  • I sit on something hard—a book, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.†  (source)
  • At Pollsmoor I first understood the truth of Oscar Wilde's haunting line about the tent of blue that prisoners call the sky.†  (source)
  • As in Oscar Wilde.†  (source)
  • Oscar Wilde's "Reading Gaol" has the dope twisted.†  (source)
  • The late Oscar Wilde, for instance.†  (source)
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