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Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2)

CHAPTER XXIV
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You ought to know the world by this time." He did not even notice the hint to work, but broke out angrily: "What you call vice, Frank, is not vice: it is as good to me as it was to Caesar, Alexander, Michelangelo and Shakespeare.

It was first of all made a sin by monasticism, and it has been made a crime in recent times, by the Goths--the Germans and English--who have done little or nothing since to refine or exalt the ideals of humanity.

They all damn the sins they have no mind to, and that's their morality.

A brutal race; they overeat and overdrink and condemn the lusts of the flesh, while revelling in all the vilest sins of the spirit.

If they would read the 23rd chapter of St.Matthew and apply it to themselves, they would learn more than by condemning a pleasure they don't understand.


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