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Dorothy Parker: If, with the...

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If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.

Source: A Pig's-Eye View of Literature: Oscar Wilde.
-- Dorothy Parker, (Aug 22 1893-1967), US author, poet, journalist, humorist; She was the celebrated caustic wit of the 1920s; wrote Enough Rope, 1926 and The Little Hours, 1944.


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