It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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