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Civilization has made some people richer and others poorer than they would be in a natural state
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- Thomas Paine Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809)
Civilization, therefore, or that which is so called, has operated, two ways, to make one part of society more affluent, and the other part more wretched, than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.
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↗Agrarian Justice (1797; Philadelphia, R. Folwell)en.wikisource.org
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