“Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
Mrs. Allonby: It ends with Revelations.”

—  Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

Act I
A Woman of No Importance (1893)

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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