other · Issue No. 6, June 1952 · p. 21

The Public

الجمهور

Frank Harris said in his book "The Confessions of Oscar Wilde":

— We were once with Wilde, when he had first come down to Paris and had recited at the "Actors' Club" his celebrated poem "Nights of Glasgow." He took my hand while the company was not looking and said in a low voice, smiling: "Alas for you! Do you know what the public is? It forgives everything except genius..."

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