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• It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus,…
• The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on…
• One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.
• Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.
• Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.
• A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on…
• Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
• It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.
• The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
• When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone…
• The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of…
• If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession…

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