“Even the disciple has his uses. He stands behind one's throne, and at the moment of one's triumph whispers in one's ear that, after all, one is immortal.”

—  Oscar Wilde

A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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