The Importance of Being Earnest
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.
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Well, I won’t argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. Algernon. That is exactly what things were originally made for.
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am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment’s notice. As a man sows so let him reap. You
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He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows.
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True. In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.
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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.