"It is better that a man should tyrannize……" — John Maynard Keynes
"It is better that a man should tyrannize 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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John Maynard Keynes
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121 Quotes by John Maynard Keynes
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