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Quotes from Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs — Herman Melville

1819–1891

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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.

Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs (1854)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Herman Melville (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.