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If all the existing instrumentalities of wealth could be abolished, the first and severest suffering would come among those of us who are least well off at present.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “If all the existing instrumentalities of wealth could be abolished, the first and severest suffering would come among…”
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Roosevelt warns that abolishing wealth would disproportionately harm those who are already struggling.
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