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“I can resist everything except temptation.”

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Lord Darlington says the line early in the play, and it becomes funnier each time Lord Waddingham repeats it back to him. Wilde built the joke on repetition, so the quotation works best when it arrives twice in a row.

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

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