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Oscar Wilde Quotes: Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
         

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.


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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.





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