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The Importance of Being Earnest
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker dismisses relatives with dry contempt, accusing them of being clueless about living well and equally clueless about when to gracefully exit. The wit lies in pairing two opposite failures, living badly and lingering too long, into one tidy insult. It's biting, theatrical, and deliberately absurd.
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