The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor. (George Bernard Shaw)

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

George Bernard Shaw

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