To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, a… - Oscar Wilde
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To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control? Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay, Which do but mar the secret of the whole.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish dramatist, essayist, novelist and poet.
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Sebastian Melmoth
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Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde
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Oscar O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde
Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?
You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.
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