Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DU…

Oscar Wilde
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Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest, p.45, Oxford Paperbacks
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