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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Page 731
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`Come to think of it,' continued Crass as he drew the Obscurer cutting from his waistcoat pocket, `I've got a little thing 'ere that I've been goin' to read to yer. It's out of the Obscurer. I'd forgotten all about it.'

Remarking that the print was too small for his own eyes, he passed the slip of paper to Harlow, who read aloud as follows:

PROVE YOUR PRINCIPLES: OR, LOOK AT BOTH SIDES

`I wish I could open your eyes to the true misery of our
condition: injustice, tyranny and oppression!' said a discontented
hack to a weary-looking cob as they stood side by side in unhired
cabs.

`I'd rather have them opened to something pleasant, thank you,'
replied the cob.

`I am sorry for you. If you could enter
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