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Karl Marx

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Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?
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(BASTIAT AND CAREY), p. 809-810

 
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