Samuel Smiles
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Samuel Smiles
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Samuel Smiles was a British author and government reformer. Although he campaigned on a Chartist platform, he promoted the idea that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His primary work, Self-Help (1859), promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire government. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism" and had lasting effects on British political thought.
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British author (1812–1904)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Smiles
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2002-12-23T10:07:55Z
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2024-09-08T23:18:50Z
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