And what sort of lives do these people.. Oscar Wilde

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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

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Oscar Wilde

Profession: Dramatist
Nationality: Irish

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