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Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

Horace Greeley

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Horace Greeley
Age: 61 †
Born: 1811
Born: February 3
Died: 1872
Died: November 29
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Amherst
New Hampshire
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