Quotation by Oscar Wilde

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him!—hang him!
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. The Czar, in Vera, or the Nihilists, act 2.

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