| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 726 |
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`We all agrees with it.' `'Ear, 'ear,' shouted Easton. `If a bloke was to come in 'ere now and orfer to give me a quid - I'd refuse it!' `So would I,' said Philpot. `Well, whether you agree or not, the fact remains. A man might possess so much money that, in England, he would be comparatively rich, and yet if he went to some country where the cost of living is very high he would find himself in a condition of poverty. Or one might conceivably be in a place where the necessaries of life could not be bought for money at all. Therefore it is more conducive to an intelligent understanding of the subject if we say that to be rich consists not necessarily in having much money, but in being able to enjoy an abundance of the things that are made by work; and that poverty consists not merely in being without money, but in being short of the necessaries and comforts of life - or in other words |
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