The gentle art of making enemies, as pleasingly exemplified in many instances, wherein the serious ones of this earth, carefully exasperated, have been prettily spurred on to unseemliness and indiscretion, while overcome by an undue sense of right (1909)
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · London, W. Heinemann · leaf 183
the scorn and ridicule of your con-freres in Europe. What has Oscar in common with Art ? except thathe dines at our tables and picks from our platters theplums for the pudding he peddles in the provinces.Oscar—the amiable, irresponsible, esurient Oscar—with no more sense of a picture than of the… … OF MAKING ENEMIES 165 Quand meme I A TLAS, this is very sad ! With our James vulgarityNov. ,4. .386. i^egins at home, and should be allowed to stay there.—A vouSf OSCAR WILDE. The Worl.i TO WHOM: •<^ poor thing, Oscar !— but, for once, I suppose•* your own.
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