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Lord Goring is a character in Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband. Goring is Wilde's doppleganger, who spouts such witticisms as "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." His father is the Earl of Cavisham and Goring, after an insistence on bachelorhood, is engaged to marry Mabel Chiltern, the sister of his best friend, Sir Robert Chiltern. His Christian name is Arthur.

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