“I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.”

—  Oscar Wilde

Lady Bracknell, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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