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DRAMATISTS > playwright, novelist > Oscar Wilde
It was a...
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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 the brickbat.
Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism, in Fortnightly Review (London, Feb 1890).
-- Oscar Wilde, (Oct 16 1856-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist; He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., The Importance of Being Ernest, 1895.