Poor Law System

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    “The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “An endless imbroglio
    Is law and the world,—
    Then first shalt thou know,
    That in the wild turmoil,
    Horsed on the Proteus,
    Thou ridest to power,
    And to endurance.”
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