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DRAMATISTS > playwright, novelist > Oscar Wilde
It is well...
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It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime.
Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as Artist, pt. 1 (published in Intentions, 1891).
-- 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.