“Never met such a Gorgon… I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.”

—  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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