“My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression”

— 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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