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NUMBER:26690
QUOTATION:When the idle poor become the idle rich, you’ll never know just who is who, or which is which.
ATTRIBUTION:E.Y. Harburg (1898–1981), U.S. songwriter. “When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich,” Finian’s Rainbow (1947), Chappell & Co. (1946).

Music composed by Burton Lane (b. 1912).
 
 
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