Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast (Penguin Little Black Classics, #119)

'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own…

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