“Where charity keeps pace with grain, industry is blessed, but to slave to get, and keep it sordidly, is a sin against Providence, a vice in government and an injury to their neighbours.”

—  William Penn

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Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part II

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English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker… 1644–1718

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