Quote#Money & Wealth
There are a great many poor people who are very sick, and yet have no…
Quote byThomas Fowell Buxton · 1837–1915
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849), 28 January 1821, Letter to one of his little boys, quoted in Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Chapter 7, p. 92.
English (original)
There are a great many poor people who are very sick, and yet have no money to buy food, or clothes, or physic; and there are many more so ignorant that they never heard of the Bible, and think they do very right, when they roast and eat their enemies!
— Thomas Fowell Buxton
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