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As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
You see, if one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain.
To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I’ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
