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I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of
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"I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation"

- William Graham Sumner

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