"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.“


-George Bernard Shaw

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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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