“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”

— Oscar Wilde , book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Variant: You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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