“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
Lord Illingworth http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q=&quot;The+only+difference+between+the+saint+and+the+sinner+is+that+every+saint+has+a+past+and+every+sinner+has+a+future&quot;&pg=PA119#v=onepage, Act III <br class="br">A Woman of No Importance (1893)
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