M. K. Hobson (1969) American writer
Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 8, “Chaos and Disorder” (p. 133)
“I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.”
Act II
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)
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