"In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth."

People, Now, Old, Order

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"In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth."

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