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“Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.”

— Oscar Wilde

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Source

Title
Wikiquote: Oscar Wilde
Type
reference · Secondary source
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Wikiquote
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Context

Letter to James McNeill Whistler (23 February 1885) [http://www.artsandartists.org/exhpages/whistler.html]

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Wilde, Oscar. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Oscar Wilde. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

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