Anybody can be good in the country. — Oscar Wilde

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Anybody can be good in the country.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

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Topic

Resisting temptation Temptation

Medium

Novel Magazine

Time

1890

Person

Oscar Wilde

Provenance

Current citation

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 19.

Original citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 19.

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