“Lord Illingworth: Women have become too brilliant. Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.
Mrs. Allonby: Or the want of it in the man.”

— Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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