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> I think you meant the importance of being Ernest.
Not really. First the title of the play itself is "The importance of being Earnest. a
trivial comedy for serious people". Second, the quotation about a cynic comes according to
the The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 [http://www.bartleby.com/66/97/64397.html] from
Lady Windermere's Fan, act 3 (1893) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) ch. 4 not from
The importance of being Earnest.
My point was rather to suggest the value of non-opportunistic (earnest) behaviour. Or as
Samuel L. Jackson once remarked in a film the details of which I have successfully blocked
from my memory: "I am frank and earnest. In Chicago I am Frank, in New York I am Ernest."
Nikos Th.
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