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It is not only so of the state and statesman, but of all the classes and descriptions of the rich: they are the pensioners of the poor, and are maintained by their superfluity.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the relationship between the rich and the poor, suggesting that the wealthy rely on the surplus produced by the laboring classes.
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