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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
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- William Roscoe: Martin Archer Shee, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Lynn Redgrave: John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy: Hodder & Stoughton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized