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Page 33
... better to set people to work at , it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels ; but , as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds , and no rags for their bodies , so long it is blanket - making and tailoring we ...
... better to set people to work at , it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels ; but , as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds , and no rags for their bodies , so long it is blanket - making and tailoring we ...
Page 34
... better husbands ) by dressing quietly , as by dressing brilliantly : and I believe it would only be needed to lay fairly and largely before them the real good which might be effected by the sums they spend in toilettes , to make them ...
... better husbands ) by dressing quietly , as by dressing brilliantly : and I believe it would only be needed to lay fairly and largely before them the real good which might be effected by the sums they spend in toilettes , to make them ...
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... better of them in every possible way ? By no means . They were made that wise people might take care of them . That is the true and plain fact concerning the relations of every strong and wise man to the world about him . He has his ...
... better of them in every possible way ? By no means . They were made that wise people might take care of them . That is the true and plain fact concerning the relations of every strong and wise man to the world about him . He has his ...
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