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" Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination. "

Oscar Wilde

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" The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. "

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