Wealth itself is an inequality which renders possible the m… - Joel Benton

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Wealth itself is an inequality which renders possible the most lurid contrast in conditions of human happiness. ... But you can not abolish wealth without punishing economy and thrift, and taking away the incentive to rise in the world. You can only abolish it by abolishing civilization, to which wealth and poverty are incidents; and poverty you can not abolish, either while civilization lasts or after it is destroyed.

Joel Benton

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(May 29, 1832 – September 15, 1911) was an American writer, poet and lecturer.

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