Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde, in ‘The Soul of Man Under Socialism’ (1895)
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde, in ‘The Soul of Man Under Socialism’ (1895)
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He always sounds so reasonable. Presumably he would view religious institutions as being selfish; I wonder what he would make of Dawkins and his horde of super-sceptics?