"Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class."
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"When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool."
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