
The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
– Oscar Wilde
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- They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance. – Oscar Wilde
- You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person! – Oscar Wilde
