Source: The Conquest of Bread (1892), Ch. 4 : Expropriation
“Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich man to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.”
Rose and Crown (New York: Macmillan, 1952) p. 282.
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