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> [“Samuel thundered that no American factory hand was worth more than eighty cents a day. And yet he could be thankful for the opportunity to pay a hundred thousand dollars or more for a painting by an Italian three centuries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut/samuel-thundered-that-no-american-factory-hand-was-worth-more-than/)

[Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut/)

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