> Wilde was.. intrigued.. Like teenage #LeGuin.. in #LaoTzu, Wilde saw a#RabbleRouser in #ChuangTzu: “He would be disturbing at dinner-parties, and impossible at afternoon teas.”.. #HeidiCParton point[s to] #OscarWilde’s famous.. quips [that] would be.. familiar to a #Taoist:
#ChuangTzu wrote, “What starts out being sincere usually ends up being deceitful.”.. Oscar Wilde put it, “A little #sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
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