Grief Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things” quote by Oscar Wilde — Download Open image

““Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things””

Oscar Wilde

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