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The Happy Prince and Other Stories Quotes

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

Source:The Remarkable Rocket (1888); (ed. Penguin Books, 1994), Page 64
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Oscar Wilde (The Happy Prince and Other Stories Quotes)
  • Book: The Happy Prince and Other Stories
  • Writer: Oscar Wilde
  • Genre: Children's, Fiction, Short Stories
  • Published: 1888
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