Sydney Evening News - Friday, November 15, 1895
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Oscar Wilde.
Our London correspondent gives an amusing description of a visit paid to Oscar Wilde in prison. He is as full of quaint and epigrammatic expressions as of old. His first reply to expressions of sorrow were: "The dawning of a moral sense is an exquisite sensation," and later on he said in his cell, "I always thought I was born to be a monk. Now, since my confinement here, I am convinced of it." The editor of the "Daily Chronicle" (Brilliant Massingham) has already engaged Oscar to write a series of prison thoughts and expressions under the heading of "Oscar Purified."
A London correspondent gives an amusing description of a visit paid to Oscar Wilde in prison. He is as full of quaint and epigrammatic expressions as of old. His first reply to expressions of sorrow was, "The dawning of a moral sense is an exquisite sensation;" and later on, he said in his cell, "I always thought I was born to be a monk. Now, since my confinement here, I am convinced of it." The editor of the Daily Chronicle (Mr. Massingham), has already engaged Oscar to write a series of prison thoughts and expressions under the heading of "Oscar Purified."