If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be…

Abraham Lincoln
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If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence. ✨ Abraham Lincoln (1989). Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45, p.157, Library of America
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