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Patience, labour, 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, labour, sobriety, frugality, and religion, should be recommended to them; all the rest is downright FRAUD.”
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Burke advocates for virtues such as patience and frugality as essential for the laboring classes, denouncing fraudulent solutions.
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