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If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.

Jean-Baptiste Say

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Jean-Baptiste Say
Age: 65 †
Born: 1767
Born: January 5
Died: 1832
Died: November 14
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