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Every restraint now adays is laid on poverty & every liberty is given to luxury burthens are constantly laid upon the weak & the strong are left without them – with the weak they are called useful & nessesary laws & with the rich they are considered as mean & incommod\{i\}ous matters never intended for them Thus every nessesary article with the poor is taxed & every luxury with the rich goes riot free as far as possible with the descency of parsiality to participate \#poetry \#environment \#h...

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