“He
who has chosen poverty ought not to be rich. If he wants to be rich,
let him put his hand to the plow and seek his fortune from the land.
It is enough if the poor are decently cared for so that they do not
die of hunger or cold. It is not fitting that one man should live in
idleness on another's labor, or be rich and live comfortably at the
cost of another's hardship, ….” Martin Luther, To the
Christian Nobility, LW, AE, 44:190
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