What is Poverty? (Spring 1999).
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When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
— Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude." in the context of "What is Poverty? (Spring 1999)." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)" (Quotes, City Journal (1998 - 2011): Daniels' City Journal essays have also been collected in three books: 1) Not With A Bang But A Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline; 2) Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses; and 3) Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass.)
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About Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)
Anthony Daniels (born 11 October 1949) is an English writer and retired physician (prison doctor and psychiatrist) who frequently uses the pen name Theodore Dalrymple.
About Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)
Anthony Daniels (born 11 October 1949) is an English writer and retired physician (prison doctor and psychiatrist) who frequently uses the pen name Theodore Dalrymple.
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