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Read, I, Pencil: Library of Economics and Liberty |
 | | I, Pencil, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and awe, a claim I shall attempt to prove. |
 | | Once in the pencil factory$4,000,000 in machinery and building, all capital accumulated by thrifty and saving parents of mineeach slat is given eight grooves by a complex machine, after which another machine lays leads in every other slat, applies glue, and places another slat atopa lead sandwich, so to speak. |
 | | I, Pencil, seemingly simple though I am, offer the miracle of my creation as testimony that this is a practical faith, as practical as the sun, the rain, a cedar tree, the good earth. |
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