Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life whi…

Oscar Wilde
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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). Oscar Wilde - The Major Works, p.257, Oxford University Press
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