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Poor Miss Finch

CHAPTER THE FIFTH
15/23

To her mind, it was a sufficient guarantee of his integrity that he was a rich man.

To my mind (speaking as a good Socialist), that very circumstance told dead against him.

A capitalist is a robber of one sort, and a coiner is a robber of another sort.

Whether the capitalist recommends the coiner, or the coiner the capitalist, is all one to me.

In either case (to quote the language of an excellent English play) the honest people are the soft easy cushions on which these knaves repose and fatten.


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