“All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.”

—  Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

Sir Robert Chiltern, Act II
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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