“Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.”

— 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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