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What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.


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I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.



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