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The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
Alfred Marshall
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Alfred Marshall was a Economist from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1842–1924).

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Alfred Marshall lived from 1842 – 1924.