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GAMSAT Section 2 quote prompts: Wealth

1 GAMSAT-style prompt on wealth. Each gives you five comments that disagree, so your job is to find the tension and argue a clear position. Give yourself about 30 minutes per essay.

Task A · ArgumentPrompt 1 of 1

Consider the following comments on wealth.

  • It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

    Seneca

  • No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he had only had good intentions. He had money as well.

    Margaret Thatcher

  • The rich are different from you and me: they have more money.

    Anonymous

  • Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness.

    Charles Dickens

Write a piece in response to one or more of these comments. Your essay will be assessed on the quality of your argument and the way you express it.

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