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Oscar Wilde1854–1900

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.

Oscar Wilde on marriage

The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by Algernon

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