“We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”

— Oscar Wilde , book The Canterville Ghost

Source: The Canterville Ghost http://www.oscarwildecollection.com/savile/canterville.c1.html (1887). For history and analysis of the quote see Common Language http://oscarwildeinamerica.org/quotations/common-language.html.

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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