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WT Sharpe · 05-05-2011, 03:49 PM

....."Not at all," answered Lord Henry, "not at all, my dear Basil. You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. I never know where my wife is, and my wife never knows what I am doing."
..........— Oscar Wilde [Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde] (1854-1900), Irish writer. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter 1.

05-05-2011, 03:49 PM	#1555
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	....."Not at all," answered Lord Henry, "not at all, my dear Basil. You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. I never know where my wife is, and my wife never knows what I am doing." ..........— Oscar Wilde [Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde] (1854-1900), Irish writer. *The Picture of Dorian Gray* (1891), Chapter 1.