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"Wilde in America"
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'They say that when good Americans die they go to Paris,' chuckled Sir Thomas....'Really! And where do bad Americans go to when they die?' inquired the Duchess.
'
They go to America,' murmured Lord Henry.

OSCAR WILDE, 1891

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Original source

The Picture of Dorian Gray, book 1891.
Version previously published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, 46 (July 1890).
By Oscar Wilde
Details Ch. 3.
Interchange between Sir Thomas Burdon, the Duchess of Harley, and Lord Henry Wotton.
Reused in: A Woman of No Importance, pub. 1894
By: Oscar Wilde
Details Act 1
Interchange, slightly altered, between Mrs Allonby, Lady Hunstanton, and Lord Illingworth.

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