I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast …

Oscar Wilde
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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1997). Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis, p.490, Wordsworth Editions
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