And he related also, with much gusto, how in a country-house he had told his host one evening that he had spent the day in hard literary work, and th… - Oscar Wilde

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And he related also, with much gusto, how in a country-house he had told his host one evening that he had spent the day in hard literary work, and that, when asked what he had done, he had said, "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning and took out a comma." "And in the afternoon?" "In the afternoon–well, I put it back again."