I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for…”
- Author
- Oscar Wilde
- Work
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Year
- 1890
- Chapter / part
- Chapter I
- Length
- 21 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #174
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 1890. 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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