Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce. ✨ O…

Oscar Wilde
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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2014). Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane, p.570, Bloomsbury Publishing
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