• @foggy
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      81 year ago

      The price of everything, the value of nothing.

        • @foggy
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          11 year ago

          Sigh.

          No, in Lady Windermere’s Fan, Oscar Wilde has Lord Darlingtons quip that a cynic is “a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”. The phrase is Wilde’s famous definition of a cynic. It means to be so materialistic that one is unable to gauge or recognize something’s true value.

          Also, a banger of a song