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Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

Robert Southey
Poverty, Reason Why, Misery
Robert Southey (1854). “Ballads, metrical tales and other poems”, p.141
Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.