It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.
Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1056, Wordsworth Editions
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