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Which Quotes by William Graham Sumner
- A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him…
- I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one…
- The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use…
- Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming…
- 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…
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