Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents…

Oscar Wilde
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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2007). The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde, p.496, Wordsworth Editions
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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2007). The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde, p.496, Wordsworth Editions

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