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DRAMATISTS > playwright, novelist > Oscar Wilde
How strange a...
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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
Source: The young fisherman, in The Fisherman and his Soul (published in A House of Pomegranates, 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.