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By Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
- Source
- The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, 1899 · Act I, p. 15
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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 Algernon in Act I. This is the text of the first published edition.