"Anyone who has lived among the poor will agree that human brotherhood is not an empty invention of the poets, but the most oppressive and wretched reality; and if a writer really endeavored to know the manners of high society, he might arrive at an understanding of them with the same success, if he painted match-sellers or fruit sellers.
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Oscar WildeAll Translations
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Anyone who has lived among the poor will agree that human brotherhood is not an empty invention of the poets, but the most oppressive and wretched reality; and if a writer really endeavored to know the manners of high society, he might arrive at an understanding of them with the same success, if he painted match-sellers or fruit sellers.
""Oricine a trăit printre cei săraci va fi de acord că fraternitatea umană nu este o invenție goală a poeților, ci cea mai opresivă și mârșavă realitate; iar dacă un scriitor chiar s-ar strădui să cunoască moravurile înaltei societăți, ar putea să ajungă cu același succes la înțelegerea acestora, dacă ar zugrăvi vânzătoare de chibrituri sau vânzători de fructe."