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“It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as it would if a crowd mocked at a child for its weakness, or laughed at a lame man because he could not run, or a blind man because he stumbled.”

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Book:Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations
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“One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.”

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Book:Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations
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