“What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 27.

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Novelist, poet, editor 1819–1881

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