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We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
—Oscar Wilde, From Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellman, 1987

Posted on December 11, 2002 at 9:51 AM

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