Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

Samuel Pepys
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The following quote is a humorous account of a man, who was a friend of a very wealthy lady, who shared with him a joke that she had heard about the poor. The story begins with a poor man and his wife going around the city begging for money. They end up at a baker’s shop and beg for some bread, which they proceed to eat. When the bakers son discovers what they have done, he goes to his mother and tells her of this wonderful opportunity to steal from the rich. The mother replies: “Why, what good will it do us? We have only one pair of hands, and we can’t work, nor earn our own bread.”

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