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“Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech, April 3, 1872.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b36aa14c1c3c5869b6010b469d81d8d44f1078a808156ae81929b06487948996
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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