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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:8092
AUTHOR:Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
QUOTATION:The vilest deeds like poison-weeds
  Bloom well in prison-air:
It is only what is good in Man
  That wastes and withers there:
Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate
  And the Warder is Despair.
ATTRIBUTION:The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:Oscar Wilde Collection.
 

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