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Quotation by Oscar Wilde
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Dramatic Review (London, Feb. 20, 1886)A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated Saturday Review (London, Nov. 17, 1894)Algernon, in The Importance of Being EarnestAlgernon, in The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)"Aristotle at Afternoon Tea" Pall Mall Gazette (London, February 28, 1885)
I was disappointed in Niagara—most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Lecture, July 10, 1883. "Personal Impressions of America."
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