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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. - Oscar Wilde (The Critic as Artist Quotes)

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Source:The Critic as Artist (1891); in Intentions (ed. Methuen & Co., 1911), Page 95

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Name: Oscar Wilde
Profession: Poet, Playwright
Born: October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900
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