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'A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modern people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.'
— Oct 06, 2024 07:22PM
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'What do we do with men who are underfed and idle; and the answer-to make them grow their own food-imposes itself automatically.'
— Oct 06, 2024 08:54PM
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The beggar 'seldom extracts more than just a bare living from the community, and [...] he pays for it over and over in suffering.'
— Oct 06, 2024 07:18PM
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‘The instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply fear of the mob. The mob are such low animals that they would be dangerous if they had leisure; it is safer to keep them too busy to think.’
— Oct 02, 2024 06:13PM
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Living’ in a run between work and sleep, without time to think, hardly conscious of the exterior world.’
— Oct 02, 2024 02:27AM
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'In this life which is so sad, trouble comes to everyone.'
— Sep 03, 2024 04:08PM
