the gilded cage
uncertaintimes:Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900)
Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
fyi: “Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.” were not Wilde’s last words. About a month before he died, he did say, “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.”
yesterday, i almost bought a second set of encyclopedias for my room because they were lovely wine-colored edition from the 1940s and they were only 4$ for the set. The price was right, but i couldn’t justify having one third of my shelving devoted to massive volumes of outdated (though beautifully bound) information. Sigh…I guess this is growing up.
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