Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train. (Oscar Wilde)

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Oscar Wilde

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