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The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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