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Your system was liable to periodical convulsions, business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

Edward Bellamy

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Edward Bellamy
Age: 48 †
Born: 1850
Born: March 26
Died: 1898
Died: May 22
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Massachusetts
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