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DRAMATISTS > playwright, novelist > Oscar Wilde
The only thing...
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
Source: Review of Chuang Tsu: Mystic, Moralist and Social Reformer (tr. by Herbert A. Giles; published in Speaker, London, 8 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.