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DRAMATISTS > playwright, novelist > Oscar Wilde
Examinations, sir, are...
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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
Source: Lord Fermor, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 3, 1891.
-- Oscar Wilde, (Oct 16 1856-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist; He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., The Importance of Being Ernest, 1895.