New Philosopher

Wealth

The Novelist

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

1802-1838

One wide bond

One great evil of highly civilised society is, the immense distance between the rich and the poor; it leads, on either side, to a hardened selfishness. Where we know little, we care little; but the fact once admitted, that there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal, that we cannot reform for a time, or for a class, but for all

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