Quote#Money & Wealth
God knows, it is as much as I can do to put meat and bread on my own…
Quote bySamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1772–1834
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Thomas Poole (23 March 1801).
English (original)
God knows, it is as much as I can do to put meat and bread on my own table; & hourly some poor starving wretch comes to my door, to put in his claim for a part of it.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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