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To Norman Forbes-Robertson
[Early June 1885]                [16 Tite Street]

Dear Norman,

Thanks for your congratulations. Yes, come tomorrow. The baby is wonderful: it has a bridge to its nose! which the nurse says is proof of genius! it also has a superb voice, which it freely exercises: its style is essentially Wagnerian.

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(from "Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde") 

"When valour preys on reason
It eats the sword it fights with."

("Anthony and Cleopatra")