“Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing succeeds like excess.”

—  Oscar Wilde , A Woman of No Importance

Lord Illingworth, Act III
A Woman of No Importance (1893)

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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