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Quotation from Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
“England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce, supply for human want in every kind; yet England is dying of inanition”
Past and Present, Book I, ch. I (Midas) (Project Gutenberg #26159)
The opening paradox of the book: abundance alongside starvation.
Citation: "England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce, supply for human want in every kind; yet England is dying of inanition" — Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book I, ch. I (Midas) (Project Gutenberg #26159). (id past-and-present-q3)
