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Economics Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- When men are employed they are best contented.
- After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.
- It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of…
- When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.
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