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Down and Out in Paris and London Quotes
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
Source:
(Victor Gollancz, ed. 1933), Chapter I, Page 8
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Down and Out in Paris and London
Writer:
George Orwell
Genre:
Biography, Travel
Published:
1933
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