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Beggars.—Beggars ought to be suppressed; because we get angry both when we help them and when we do not.
Beggars.—Beggars ought to be suppressed; because we get angry both when we help them and when we do not.
Approximate historical placement: c. 1872 AD · industrial
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- Friedrich Nietzsche
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- Approximate historical placement: c. 1872 AD · industrial
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- The Dawn of Day (1911 English edition) (1911 AD)
The Dawn of Day, complete printed unit 185; John McFarland Kennedy translation; New York: The MacMillan Company,1911
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Author of Human, All-Too-Human, here represented by complete numbered passages in Helen Zimmern’s 1909 and Paul V. Cohn’s 1913 English editions. Catalogue lifetime 1844–1900; historical philosophical arguments and dated viewpoints require context, rather than treating every sentence as general advice.
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