Oscar Wilde quote about care from The Importance of Being Earnest - To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
 Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). copy citation

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Author Oscar Wilde
Source The Importance of Being Earnest
Topic care parents misfortune
Date 1895
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/844/844-h/844-h.htm

Context

“Oh, they count as Tories. They dine with us. Or come in the evening, at any rate. Now to minor matters. Are your parents living?
jack. I have lost both my parents.
Lady Bracknell. To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Who was your father? He was evidently a man of some wealth. Was he born in what the Radical papers call the purple of commerce, or did he rise from the ranks of the aristocracy?
jack. I am afraid I really don't know.” source

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