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Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2)

CHAPTER III
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It was at Oxford I first dressed in knee breeches and silk stockings.

I almost reformed fashion and made modern dress aesthetically beautiful; a second and greater reformation, Frank.

What a pity it is that Luther knew nothing of dress, had no sense of the becoming.

He had courage but no fineness of perception.

I'm afraid his neckties would always have been quite shocking!" and he laughed charmingly.
"What about the inside of the platter, Oscar ?" "Ah, Frank, don't ask me, I don't know; there was no grossness, no coarseness; but all delicate delights! "'Fair passions and bountiful pities and loves without pain,'"[4] and he laughed mischievously at the misquotation.
"Loves ?" I questioned, and he nodded his head smiling; but would not be drawn.
"All romantic and ideal affections.


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