Quote of the Day for November 8, 2009


312: From Marcet: Essays, 4: The Poor\'s Rate: or The Treacherous Friend:

    "But the worst of all," said the wife, "is that it teaches them to be idle, discontented and riotous, and madly to burn the very ricks of corn that might have made them bread."

    4.55 (paragraph number)

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