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...the more they remain the same, no? Note the date...
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To an Income-tax Inspector

[? April 1889]                         [Woman's World, La Belle Sauvage]

Sir,
It was arranged last year that I should send in my income-tax return from Chelsea where I reside, as I am resigning my position here and will not be with Messrs Cassell after August.
I think it would be better to continue that arrangement. I wish your notices were not so agitating and did not hold out such dreadful threats.
A penalty of fifty pounds sounds like a relic of mediaeval torture.

Your obedient servant,

Oscar Wilde

[from "Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde"]