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The Importance of Being Earnest Quotes

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated. - Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest Quotes)

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.[Also known as:]You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Source:(ed. Methuen & Co., 1919), Act II, Page 98
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Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest Quotes)
  • Book: The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Writer: Oscar Wilde
  • Genre: Plays, Drama, Comedy
  • Published: 1895
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