As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
Theodore Parker
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- It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
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- It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
- Politics is the science of urgencies.