We shall scarcely find in Europe a peasantry whose abject p… - Charles Dudley Warner

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We shall scarcely find in Europe a peasantry whose abject poverty is not in some measure alleviated by this power which literature gives them to live outside it.

Charles Dudley Warner

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Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 – October 20, 1900) was an American essayist and novelist.

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