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How could I possibly forget?
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I love your play.
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The audience didn't know whether
you meant your jokes or not.

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You shocked them -
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especially with your speech.
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But the more
frivolous you seem,

:24:14
the more serious
you are, aren't you?

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I love that.
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Thank you. I always say,
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the young are the only critics
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with enough experience
to judge my work.

:24:24
We need shocking.
People are so banal.

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And you use your wit
like a foil -

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you cut through all those
starched shirt-fronts.

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You draw blood.
It's magnificent.

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I wish you'd draw some blood
down in Oxford.

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Though you'd need a miracle.
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All the dons at my college
have dust in their veins!

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At which college
do you educate the fellows?

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Magdalen.
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My own college.
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Well, I shall claim
the privilege of a graduate

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and come and take
tutorials with you.

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Come soon, then.
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They're threatening
to send me down.

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How could they be so cruel
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to one so beautiful?
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Dons.
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They're so middle-class.
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My dear Oscar,
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you've shocked London,
smoking on stage like that.

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Excellent!
We shall run for a year.

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You must say something
to Marion Terry.

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She was good, wasn't she?
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So good, she wrote
most of the lines herself.

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Excuse me, Lord Alfred.
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Bosie, please.
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Bosie.
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You must
be so thrilled, Oscar.

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I know!
Isn't that humiliating?

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"'My own garden is
my own garden, said the giant.

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"So he built a high wall
all round it

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"and put up a noticeboard.
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"'Trespassers
will be prosecuted. '

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"He was a very selfish giant.
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"The poor children
had now nowhere to play.

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"They tried to play
on the road

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"but the road was very dusty
and full of hard stones

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"and they did not like it.

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