Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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