Poverty Scale

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    In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments.
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    ‘Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
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