“I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious."
"Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense."
"Nobody ever does.”

—  Oscar Wilde , The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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