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NO IMPORTANCE
ACT III.

LADY HUNSTANTON
Well, it is very gratifying, dear Archdeacon, is it not, to find that Human Nature is permanently one.—On the whole, the world is the same world, is it not?

LORD ILLINGWORTH
The world is simply divided into two classes—those who believe the incredible, like the public—and those who do the improbable——

MRS. ALLONBY
Like yourself?

LORD ILLINGWORTH
Yes; I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

LADY STUTFIELD
And what have you been doing lately that astonishes you?

LORD ILLINGWORTH
I have been discovering all kinds of beautiful qualities in my own nature.

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