There are a great many poor people who are very sick, and yet have no money to buy food, or clothes, or physic; and there are many more so ignorant t… - Thomas Fowell Buxton

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There are a great many poor people who are very sick, and yet have no money to buy food, or clothes, or physic; and there are many more so ignorant that they never heard of the Bible, and think they do very right, when they roast and eat their enemies!

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About Thomas Fowell Buxton

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet Buxton of Belfield and Runton (1 April 1786– 19 February 1845) was an English Member of Parliament, brewer, abolitionist and social reformer.

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Alternative Names: Thomas Buxton Fowell Buxton Sir Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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The longer I live the more certain I am that the great difference between men, the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy and invincible determination – a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged creature a man without it.

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