“Manual labor meant association with a rude, coarse, and ignorant class of people. There is no such class now.”

—  Edward Bellamy

Source: Looking Backward, 2000-1887 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25439 (1888), Ch. 21.

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American author and socialist 1850–1898

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