"People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there."

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Source : Henry Mackenzie (1820). “The man of feeling: and Julia de Roubigné, a tale”, p.18

Henry Mackenzie

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