Samuel Smiles：Thrift, Excerpt 242

Conduct such as this is not only thoughtless and improvident, but heartless and cruel in the last degree. To bring a family into the world, give them refined tastes, and accustom them to comforts, the loss of which is misery, and then to leave the family to the workhouse, the prison, or the street--to the alms of relatives, or to the charity of the public,--is nothing short of a crime done against society, as well as against the unfortunate individuals who are the immediate sufferers.

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