Oscar Wilde | Quote Cookie

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

- Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde attended Trinity College in Dublin and later studied at Magdalen College in Oxford, England.

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