Oscar Wilde
1891 · Ireland · Britain
All art is quite useless.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, preface
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Oscar Wilde
1895 · Ireland · Britain · A line spoken by Algernon in the comedy
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 1
Mark Twain
1897 · Missouri, USA · Connecticut
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Following the Equator, epigraph to chapter 7, from "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar"
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