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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 till 30 November 1900)

Attended the Portora Royal School at Enniskillen, excelled at studying the classics.

Awarded the Royal School Scholarship to attend Trinity College in Dublin.Went on a lecture tour throughout the United States, London and Canada to teach aesthetic values in 1879.

Regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era, Wilde wrote and produced nine plays.


Oscars portrayals of the human condition came during the height of the prosperity that swept through London in the Victorian Era of the late 19th century. At time when all citizens of Britain were able to embrace literature. Wilde wrote many short stories, plays and poems that continue to inspire millions around the world.

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

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Oscar Wilde

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"Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."