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The first round in the battle with Fate was inconclusive. Oscar Wilde had / managed to get known and talked about and had kept his head above water for / a couple of years while learning something about life and more about himself. / On the other hand he had spent almost all his patrimony, had run into some debt / besides; yet seemed as far as ever from earning a decent living. The outlook / was disquieting.
Even as a young man Oscar had a very considerable understanding of life. He / could not make his way as a journalist, the English did not care for his poetry; / but there was still the lecture-platform. In his heart he knew that he could / talk better than he wrote.