| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 6920 |
| AUTHOR: | Robert Charles Winthrop (18091894) |
| QUOTATION: | The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Yorktown Oration, 1881. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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