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Love me some Dostoevski
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Dostoevski rules! Along with Tolstoy and Tugeniev. Read the Russians!
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If Mayweather were a writer, he'd whip Dostoevsky by the 2nd chapter.Comment
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years of hard labour after being convicted of the offence of "gross indecency".
Oscar Wilde was the second son born into an Anglo-Irish family, at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane Francesca Elgee (her psuedonym being Speranza). Jane was a successful writer, being a poet for the revolutionary Young Irelanders in 1848 and a life-long Irish nationalist.[1] Sir William was Ireland's leading Oto-Ophthalmologic (ear and eye) surgeon and was knighted in 1864 for his services to medicine.[1] William also wrote books on archaeology and folklore. He was a renowned philanthropist, and his dispensary for the care of the city's poor, in Lincoln Place at the rear of Trinity College, Dublin, was the forerunner of the Dublin Eye and Ear Hospital, now located at Adelaide Road.
In June 1855, the family moved to 1 Merrion Square in a fashionable residential area, where Wilde's sister, Isola, was born in 1856. Here, Lady Wilde held a regular Saturday afternoon salon with guests including Sheridan le Fanu, Samuel Lever, George Petrie, Isaac Butt and Samuel Ferguson. Oscar was educated at home up to the age of nine. He attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, Fermanagh from 1864 to 1871, spending the summer months with his family in rural Waterford, Wexford and at Sir William's family home in Mayo. Here the Wilde brothers played with the older George Moore.
After leaving Portora, Wilde studied classics at Trinity College, Dublin, from 1871 to 1874. He was an outstanding student, and won the Berkeley Gold Medal, the highest award available to classics students at Trinity. He was granted a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he continued his studies from 1874 to 1878 and where he became a part of the Aesthetic movement, one of its tenets being to make an art of life. While at Magdalen, he won the 1878 Newdigate Prize for his poem Ravenna, which he read out at Encaenia; he failed, though, to win the Chancellor's English Essay Prize for an essay that would be published posthumously as The Rise of Historical Criticism (1909). In November 1878, he graduated with a double first in classical moderations and literae humaniores, or 'greats'.Comment
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Is This Guy Serious Floyd Doesn't Even Compare To Ali. Plus All Floyd Does When He Fights Is Dance Around In The Ring.sometimes I Forget If He Is A Boxer Or A Professional Dancer!!!Comment
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in fights that can possibly happen right now....
who can beat floyd?
i'd give zab judah a chance in a rematch
shane mosley might can hold up and slug wit mayweather,
pressure him(which floyd doesnt like) and use speed
sugar shane has a good chance
i cant see floyd gettin ko'd ever tho
that will shock the world
the man who ko's floyd will be a star
but i also give paul williams a good chance
use his height right and outbox floyd,
which seems impossible
but paul williams can box
and a good chance for floyd to lose is put him in there wit vernon forrest
vernon called him out
its time to see that fight happen
floyd has to move up in weightComment
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