The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house. (William Graham Sumner)

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.

William Graham Sumner

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