To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. (Charles Caleb Colton)

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Charles Caleb Colton

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