Charles Sumner: “The rich may, for the time, live from their abundance; but the less…”

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The rich may, for the time, live from their abundance; but the less favored class can have no such refuge.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner contrasts the lives of the wealthy with those of the less fortunate, emphasizing the lack of security for the latter.

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Charles Sumner: “The rich may, for the time, live from their abundance; but the less favored class can have no such refuge.”