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Oscar Wilde Quotes

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are, and will be what they will be.

Source:De Profundis (Written 1895-97, in Reading Gaol); in The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (ed. WM. H. Wise & Co., 1927), Voluem XI, Page 18
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  • Profession: Poet, Playwright
  • Born: October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900
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