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R. H. Tawney Quotes: As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.
         

As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.


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