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“The destruction of the poor is their poverty.”
— Unattributed
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 7df64a3ae47afbcd9add49bde2e809d9b1e35c822ee2de8f3f06b64534857581
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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