Samuel Smiles

Samuel Smiles

(1812–1904) writer United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland writer.

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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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Self-help

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