Oscar Wilde, the Irish poet and
playwright who was born in Dublin and educated at Oxford, England, notably a
language prodigy, was conversant with German, French, Greek and Latin at an
early age. The liberal hedonistic life that he led in his youth, whilst being frowned
at by the society he lived in, might well have sharpened his senses to give him
the neede…
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