More from Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Act III
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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.