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My dear Duke, I know nothing of the joys of homo-sexuality. You must speak to my friend Oscar about that. And yet, if Shakespeare had asked me, I would have had to submit.

— Frank Harris Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932)

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Source: Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932) pp. 100-101.
Work: Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris, 1932
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