The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is onl…

Oscar Wilde
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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose, p.213, Oxford University Press on Demand
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