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RhACT III. LORD ILLINGWORTH One should never tell them so, they'd all become good at once. Women are a fascinatingly wilful sex. Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

GERALD You have never been married, Lord Illingworth, have you?

LORD ILLINGWORTH Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

GERALD But don't you think one can be happy when one is married?

LORD ILLINGWORTH Perfectly happy. But the happiness of a married man, my dear Gerald, depends on the people he has not married.

GERALD But if one is in love? 114