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I do not call a healthy young man, cheerful in his mind and vigorous in his arms, I cannot call such a man poor; I cannot pity my kind as a kind, merely because they are men.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that a healthy and capable individual should not be considered poor merely due to their circumstances.
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