Labor Quote by Jack London

“Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.” quote by Jack London — Download Open image

““Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.””

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