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MrMan on Dec 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Louis C.K. "I've never seen a check from a [TV] co...

books, sheet music, information used to be more expensive by far than it is now.

pavel_lishin on Dec 16, 2011 [–]

Hell, the ability to read meant you were upper class much more than a fleet of private jets towed by gold-plated BMWs.

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