Armut: Beißerchen für die Zähne von Reformratten. Die Anzahl von Plänen zu ihrer Abschaffung ist gleich der Menge von Reformern, die an ihr leiden, plus der Menge von Philosophen, die nichts von ihr wissen.

Ambrose Bierce

Poverty, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of plans for its abolition equals that of the reformers who suffer from it, plus that of the philosophers who know nothing about it.

Ambrose Bierce
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