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->The citizens of the cotton States, as a whole, are poor. They work little, and that little, badly; they earn little, they sell little; they buy little, and they have little, ''very little'', of the common comforts and consolations of civilized life. Their destitution is not material only; it is intellectual and it is moral […] They were neither generous nor hospitable and their talk was not that of evenly courageous men.

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->The citizens of [[DeepSouth the cotton States, States]], as a whole, are poor. They work little, and that little, badly; they earn little, they sell little; they buy little, and they have little, ''very little'', of the common comforts and consolations of civilized life. Their destitution is not material only; it is intellectual and it is moral […] They were neither generous nor hospitable and their talk was not that of evenly courageous men.
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->The citizens of the cotton States, as a whole, are poor. They work little, and that little, badly; they earn little, they sell little; they buy little, and they have little, ''very little'', of the common comforts and consolations of civilized life. Their destitution is not material only; it is intellectual and it is mora[…] They were neither generous nor hospitable and their talk was not that of evenly courageous men.

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->The citizens of the cotton States, as a whole, are poor. They work little, and that little, badly; they earn little, they sell little; they buy little, and they have little, ''very little'', of the common comforts and consolations of civilized life. Their destitution is not material only; it is intellectual and it is mora[…] moral […] They were neither generous nor hospitable and their talk was not that of evenly courageous men.
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->The citizens of the cotton States, as a whole, are poor. They work little, and that little, badly; they earn little, they sell little; they buy little, and they have little, ''very little'', of the common comforts and consolations of civilized life. Their destitution is not material only; it is intellectual and it is mora[…] They were neither generous nor hospitable and their talk was not that of evenly courageous men.
-->-- '''Frederick Law Olmstead''', ''The Cotton Kingdom''

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