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Old 23-02-2009, 18:47   #1047
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Re: Anyone made a secret Freedom Of Info request about me ? Andrew?

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Originally Posted by Eric View Post
But who has the "bitter look"? Who is the flatterer? Who is doing the kissing, and who is wielding the sword?

I've always wondered why, in the seventh stanza, it is "each man"; yet in the final stanza, it becomes "all men" .... maybe, in the body of the poem, Wilde shifts his focus from the specific to the general .... oops, I'm rambling again
It seemed too cruel to use the whole quote.

There are standards of decency to be maintained.
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