Often credited to Oscar Wilde · Wilde never wrote it; the line first appears unsigned in a 1999 internet post, was credited to a Gilbert Perreira in 2000, and picked up Wilde's name later, though Thomas Merton had voiced the same idea in 1967.
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Oscar Wilde · From the long letter he wrote in Reading Gaol to Lord Alfred Douglas, on how few people ever live as themselves.
Oscar Wilde · Gwendolen's answer when Jack asks her to wait a moment while he speaks to her mother; the funniest vow of devotion on the English stage.
Oscar Wilde · Lord Illingworth in the picture gallery at Hunstanton.
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A widely shared anniversary line with no known author.
Every general-knowledge topic and the A-to-Z lists.
The world A to Z: flags, countries, the sciences, places, people, subjects.
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