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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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- 1999 Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
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- Margaret Cole: Stella Bowen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
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