“Lord Goring: Now I'm gonna give you some good advice.
Mrs. Cheveley: Pray don't. You should never give a woman something she can't wear in the evening”

—  Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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