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Ludwig von Mises Quotes: The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.
         

The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.


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