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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
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- Joshua Barnes: Robert White (1645-1703), Engraver, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Mary Russell Mitford: Benjamin Haydon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Horace Annesley Vachell: Bain, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Ena Fitzgerald: Charles John Arnell (1850-1938), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized