Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
“You show signs of levity, and that is the one thing not permitted here. This place is for serious persons only.”
Tiresias, Ch. 7
Space Chantey (1968)
Context: You show signs of levity, and that is the one thing not permitted here. This place is for serious persons only. If you are not serious now, by hell you'll get serious pretty quick!
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1890s