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ACT III.
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
I do not, Lady Hunstanton. I think there are many things women should never forgive.
LADY HUNSTANTON
What sort of things?
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
The ruin of another woman's life.[Moves slowly away to back of stage.]
LADY HUNSTANTON
Ah! those things are very sad, no doubt, but I believe there are admirable homes where people of that kind are looked after and reformed, and I think on the whole that the secret of life is to take things very, very easily.
MRS. ALLONBY
The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
LADY STUTFIELD
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
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