"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
"To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness"
"Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden. "
"But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!"
"I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!"
"I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister."
"Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first."
The Importance of Being Earnest! :D
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