| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 32509 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), British economist. “Concluding Notes,” ch. 24, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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