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Society is the offspring of leisure and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

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Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Age: 58 †
Born: 1813
Born: April 20
Died: 1871
Died: December 17
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Diplomat
Essayist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Henry T. Tuckerman
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