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Lady Caroline: As far as I can make out, the young women of the present day seem to make it the sole object of their lives to be always playing with fire.
Mrs. Allonby: The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

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