What a silly thing Love is!...It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

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Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Nightingale and the Rose." The Happy Prince and Other Tales. London: Duckworth and Co., 1888.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Nightingale and the Rose." Oscar Wilde: Complete Short Fiction, edited by Ian Small. Penguin Classics, 2003.