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The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.
The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.
Approximate author period: c. 1809 AD · industrial
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- Robert C. Winthrop
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- Approximate author period: c. 1809 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Yorktown Oration in 1881.
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