[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
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[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?

— Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
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