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Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.

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Novalis

Novalis

Novalis (IPA: [noˈvaːlɪs]) was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (May 2, 1772 - March 25, 1801), an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism.

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