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All men would then be necessarily equal, if they were without needs. It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.
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It does not depend upon us to avoid poverty, but it does depend upon us to make that poverty respected.
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Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.
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Work keeps away those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.
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It was our fault, and our very great fault—and now we must turn it to use. We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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November 21, 1694
Died:
May 30, 1778
(aged 83)
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