"The Importance of Being Earnest"

[fiefoe]

~ Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

^ To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

# It isn’t at all a becoming language. I know perfectly well that I look quite plain after my German lesson.

% I never change, except in my affections.

& Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look forward to.

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