If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being …

Oscar Wilde
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If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2016). The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing
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If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2016). The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing

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