Every aristocratical family has an appendage of family beggars hanging round it, which in a few ages, or a few generations, are shook off, and console themselves with telling their tale in almshouses, workhouses, and prisons.
Paine vividly describes the plight of disinherited younger children of aristocratic families, who often end up in poverty and public institutions.
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