WILDE OSCAR Autograph Quotation dated and Signed

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SHOULD AESTHETICS TRUMP MORALITY? WILDE, OSCAR. Autograph Quotation dated and Signed: 'In the development of the individual, a sense of colour is of more importance than a sense of right and wrong.' 1 page, 8vo, personal stationery, with integral blank; folds. (MRS) 'Chelsea' [London], 13 October 1890

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This quote is from his dialogue Intentions (1913), paraphrased from the words of the character Gilbert: 'Even a colour-sense is more important, in the development of the individual, than a sense of right and wrong.'