“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”

— Oscar Wilde

"The Portrait of Mr. W. H.," Blackwood's Magazine, July 1889 http://books.google.com/books?id=QfczAQAAMAAJ&q=%22All+charming+people+I+fancy+are+spoiled+It+is+the+secret+of+their+attraction%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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