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The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

Henry Charles Carey

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Henry Charles Carey
Age: 85 †
Born: 1793
Born: December 15
Died: 1879
Died: October 13
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Philadelphia
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