“Lady Hunstanton: But do you believe all that is written in the newspapers?
Lord Illingworth: I do. Nowadays it is only the unreadable that occurs.”

—  Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

Act I
A Woman of No Importance (1893)

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