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Our founders were the hardest working people of their time.

I think that distinction probably goes to their slaves.



There is still debate over whether slaves worked harder even than other paid farmhands. The last great volley (slaves do) could be said to have won its author a Nobel Prize.


Good, substantive point that anyone cheering on the glibness of the grandparent post should consider.




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