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• In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest - usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation - and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

  John Millington Synge
  Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer (1871 - 1909)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• speculation
• peasants
• roadside
• average
• comfort
• artist

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