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Oscar Wilde Quotes
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Source:
Letter to James McNeill Whistler (February 23, 1885); in Letters of Oscar Wilde (ed. Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1962), Page 171
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Oscar Wilde
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Poet, Playwright
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October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900
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