I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced…

Oscar Wilde
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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, Epistola : in carcere et vinculis, p.141, Oxford University Press on Demand
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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, Epistola : in carcere et vinculis, p.141, Oxford University Press on Demand

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