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1 The fact is, Lady Bracknell, I said I had lost my parents.
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2 Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them.
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3 It would be nearer the truth to say that my parents seem to have lost me.
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4 To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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5 Every luxury that money could buy, including christening, had been lavished on you by your fond and doting parents.
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6 I would strongly advise you, Mr. Worthing, to try and acquire some relations as soon as possible, and to make a definite effort to produce at any rate one parent, of either sex, before the season is quite over.
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