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Patience, labor, sobriety, frugality, and religion should be recommended to them; all the rest is downright fraud.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Patience, labor, sobriety, frugality, and religion should be recommended to them; all the rest is downright fraud.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke advocates for virtues such as patience and frugality as essential recommendations for the poor, dismissing other approaches as fraudulent.
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