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By Oscar Wilde
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
- Source
- The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, 1899 · Act II, p. 100
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- Internet Archive (Harvard University scan of the 1899 first edition, London: Leonard Smithers)
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From Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest, first performed on February 14, 1895 and published in 1899. The line is spoken by the character Gwendolen in Act II. The text is from the 1899 first edition; the stage direction "[Produces diary of her own.]" comes before it.