Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
The English Renaissance of Art https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wilde/oscar/english-renaissance-of-art/ (1882)
“To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.”
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