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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: what society is coming to. The most dreadful people seem to go
everywhere. They certainly come to my parties - the men get quite
furious if one doesn't ask them. Really, some one should make a
stand against it.
LADY WINDERMERE. I will, Duchess. I will have no one in my house
about whom there is any scandal.
LORD DARLINGTON. [R.C.] Oh, don't say that, Lady Windermere. I
should never be admitted! [Sitting.]
DUCHESS OF BERWICK. Oh, men don't matter. With women it is
different. We're good. Some of us are, at least. But we are
positively getting elbowed into the corner. Our husbands would
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