Poor Law System

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    “... for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate.”
    —Alice Foote MacDougall, U.S. businesswoman. (1867-1945)

    “I sat on cushioned otter-skin:
    My word was law from Ith to Emain,
    And shook at Invar Amargin
    The hearts of the world-troubling seamen,
    And drove tumult and war away....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Each generation’s job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation’s system of values for a new age.”
    —Frank Pittman (20th century)