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People who flee one-room slum homes for the public-house should be pitied, not blamed
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- Jack London American novelist and journalist (1876 to 1916)
Now such a room as I have described is not home but horror; and the men and women who flee away from it to the public-house are to be pitied, not blamed.
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↗The People of the Abyss (1903)gutenberg.org
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