Oscar Wilde: Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we ca

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are co — Oscar Wilde

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.

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