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Relieving the poor aggravates poverty; society should be rebuilt so poverty is impossible
Drawn from what Oscar Wilde said
What Oscar Wilde actually said
- Oscar Wilde Irish poet, playwright and essayist (1854 to 1900)
But this is not a solution: it is an aggravation of the difficulty. The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.
Where this was said
↗The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)gutenberg.org
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