I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes c…

Oscar Wilde
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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA
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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA

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