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Henry Wilcox:
Don't take a sentimental attitude toward the poor. [...] Henry Wilcox:
The poor are the poor. One is sorry for them, but there it is
Don't take a sentimental attitude toward the poor. [...] Henry Wilcox:
The poor are the poor. One is sorry for them, but there it is
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Don't take up a sentimental attitude over the poor
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See that she doesn't Margaret
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The poor are poor One is sorry for them but there it is
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Movie Summary
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.

