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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
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