I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city a…

Oscar Wilde
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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2010). Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews, p.70, University of Illinois Press
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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2010). Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews, p.70, University of Illinois Press

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