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We see industry and integrity rewarded with competence or wealth--we see intemperance and sloth followed with disease, loss of reputation and poverty.
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gutenberg.orgDavid Daggett: “We see industry and integrity rewarded with competence or wealth--we see intemperance and sloth followed with disease…”
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Daggett observes the correlation between personal virtues and societal rewards versus the consequences of vices.
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