The seven deadly sins... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. (George Bernard Shaw)

The seven deadly sins... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

George Bernard Shaw

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