Dying Beyond My Means

What Wilde actually said was, "Ah, well, then, I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means." He was quoted in a biography by R. H. Shepherd, first published in 1906, as having said this "at the mention of a huge fee for a surgical operation."

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