The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
William Graham Sumner
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- The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
- The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.
- Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
- Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
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