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Why, three hundred dollars is no more to him than a three-penny loaf to the other person.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Why, three hundred dollars is no more to him than a three-penny loaf to the other person.”
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Sumner illustrates the disparity in financial burdens between different socioeconomic classes.
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