The Importance of Being Earnest
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.  Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
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All women become like their mothers.  That is their tragedy.  No man does.  That’s his.
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I am sick to death of cleverness.  Everybody is clever nowadays.  You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people.  The thing has become an absolute public nuisance.  I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.
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Why should there be one law for men, and another for women?