I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde · Lady Windermere's Fan
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“I can resist everything except temptation.”
- Author
- Oscar Wilde
- Work
- Lady Windermere's Fan
- Year
- 1893
- Length
- 6 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #790
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. Oscar Wilde died in 1900, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1893. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
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