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Jeff Ragan
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"A good rice field is a bog at all seasons, and at one season a bog covered with water. It is unfit either for corn, or pasture, or vineyard, or, indeed, for any other vegetable produce that is very useful to men; and the lands which are fit for those purposes are not fit for rice" (69).
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Rissa (rissasreading)
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Yo this guy was all over the idea of slavery.....
"A person who can acquire no property can have no other interest than to eat as much and work as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase him his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only"
"The pride of man makes him love to domineer; He will prefer the service of a slave over a freeman"
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"A person who can acquire no property can have no other interest than to eat as much and work as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase him his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only"
"The pride of man makes him love to domineer; He will prefer the service of a slave over a freeman"
WHATTHEFUCKMAN
