“And it is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologise to one in private for what they have written against one in public.”

— Oscar Wilde , book The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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