Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs (Q16654211)

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short story by Herman Melville
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Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs
short story by Herman Melville

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    “You see,” said poet Blandmour, enthusiastically—as some forty years ago we walked along the road in a soft, moist snowfall, toward the end of March—“you see, my friend, that the blessed almoner, Nature, is in all things beneficent; and not only so, but considerate in her charities, as any discreet human philanthropist might be.” (English)
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    “Now, Heaven in its kind mercy save me from the noble charities of London,” sighed I, as that night I lay bruised and battered on my bed; “and Heaven save me equally from the ‘Poor Man’s Pudding’ and the ‘Rich Man’s Crumbs’.” (English)
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