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“You may try to destroy wealth, and find that all you have done is to increase poverty.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a2c92a996b926c546491e391467c7079e53a360e1e2fae6e8d56110103907d7c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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