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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless.
—Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, poet, and novelist, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892

Posted on June 9, 1998 at 6:58 PM

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