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My first meeting with Oscar Wilde was at Oxford. He had recently ‘come down’, but was visiting a friend there. His appearance suggested to me that he might have prompted Disraeli to write these words, they seemed so accurately to apply to the once spoiled darling: ‘The affectations of youth should be viewed leniently; every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.’
Empty Chairs (London: Murray, 1925) pp. 112–13. Editor’s title.
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Bancroft, S. (1979). Nobody Reads Nowadays. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Oscar Wilde. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03923-4_88
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