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Quotes from Letter to the Rev. J.P. Wright — Samuel Palmer

1805–1881 England

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The "rights of man" are the right of the less voracious to restrain those who are more so.

Letter to the Rev. J.P. Wright (1879)

The rights of the poor majority are pure air and pure water, and sufficient space to walk about in, when the rich minority are befouling the air with manufactories, poisoning the rivers, and as in the neighborhood of Foots Cray and St. Mary's, adding "field to field, till there be no place" left, and the villagers cannot step out of the dusty high-road without a trespass..

Letter to the Rev. J.P. Wright (1879)

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