The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments t…

Oscar Wilde
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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, Epistola : in carcere et vinculis, p.58, Oxford University Press on Demand
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