The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde in The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
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He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows.

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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

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To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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