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Oscar Wilde Quotes: It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.
         

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.


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