“I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it.”

— Thomas Paine

1790s, Agrarian Justice (1797)
Context: I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it. But it is impossible to enjoy affluence with the felicity it is capable of being enjoyed, while so much misery is mingled in the scene.

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