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Tag Archives: Poverty

“The law is an ass”. –Charles Dickens

“The more is given, the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work, the more their poverty will increase”. –Leo Tolstoy

“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor”. –William James