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Absentee Ownership (1923)
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Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
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It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
July 30, 1857
Died:
August 3, 1929
(aged 72)
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