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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.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Yorktown Oration in 1881.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9bee39631ed2eb0b855189469561b1b51e7a3608960fc9aaa259fc69d085f87b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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