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The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable

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Theodore Parker
Age: 49 †
Born: 1810
Born: August 24
Died: 1860
Died: May 10
Theologian
Lexington
Massachusetts
Great
Naked
Misers
Brother
Creep
Shall
Creeps
Poor
Estate
Death
Estates
Also
Starving
Body
Injustice
Starves
Soul
Miserable
Miser

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