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I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
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- Author or tradition
- Oscar Wilde
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- c. 1877 AD · industrial
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