• Thus Vice nurs'd Ingenuity, Which join'd with Time and Industry, Had carry'd Life's Conveniences, It's real Pleasures, Comforts, Ease, To such a Height, the very Poor Liv'd better than the Rich before.

  Source: The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 197, p. 11

  Bernard Mandeville
  British writer and artist 1670-1733
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. conveniences
2. pleasures
3. comforts
4. height
5. better
6. before

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Thus Vice nurs'd Ingenuity, Which join'd with Time and Industry, Had carry'd Life's Conveniences, It's real Pleasures, Comforts, Ease, To such a Height, the very Poor Liv'd better than the Rich before. by : Bernard Mandeville

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