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... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. Miserable covers many shabby most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, disagreeable includes them all.

Albion Fellows Bacon

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Albion Fellows Bacon
Age: 68 †
Born: 1865
Born: April 8
Died: 1933
Died: December 10
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