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John Maynard Keynes

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It is better that a man should tyrannise over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.
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Ch. 24 "Concluding Notes" p. 374

 
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