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THE HAND THAT RILES THE WORLD
 

“‘Exactly,’ says I. ‘Then why do the master minds of finance and philanthropy,’ says I, ‘charge us $2 to get into a race-track and let us into a library


‘I’m a plain citizen; and I need the job.’


free? Is that distilling into the masses,’ says I, ‘a correct estimate of the relative value of the two means of self-culture and disorder?’

“‘You are arguing outside of my faculties of sense

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