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It would be better, even economically, to prevent poverty by giving everyone something to begin with at 21
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- Thomas Paine Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809)
Would it not, even as a matter of economy, be far better, to devise means to prevent their becoming poor. This can best be done, by making every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, an inheritor of something to begin with.
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↗Agrarian Justice (1797; Philadelphia, R. Folwell)en.wikisource.org
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