"Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."
"Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage."
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Source: Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.195, Wordsworth Editions
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