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Money Quotes by Alain de Botton
- Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to…
- Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
- It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint…
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