Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but s…

Oscar Wilde
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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest, p.151, Oxford Paperbacks
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