As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes…

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As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2016). Aphorisms, p.50, Oscar Wilde
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