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    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)
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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)
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    So tell me about Oscar Wilde.†  (source)
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    THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY BY OSCAR WILDE THE PREFACE The artist is the creator of beautiful things.†  (source)
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    Underneath is a collection of Wordsworth poems, a Bible, and a book of plays by Oscar Wilde.†  (source)
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    As Oscar Wilde once said, 'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune.†  (source)
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    —Oscar Wilde (1854—1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, and poet†  (source)
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    I sit on something hard—a book, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.†  (source)
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    Postcards of authors are taped to the wall over her desk, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf.†  (source)
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    When Oscar Wilde has one character in The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) say of another, recently widowed, that "her hair has gone quite gold from grief," the statement works because our expectation is that stress turns people's hair white.†  (source)
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    Tennyson was somewhat out of date, by English standards — Oscar Wilde was in the ascendant then, at least among the younger set — but then, everything in Port Ticonderoga was somewhat out of date.†  (source)
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    The late Oscar Wilde, for instance.†  (source)
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    "Ever read any Oscar Wilde?" he asked.†  (source)
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