“The persons who become rich are, generally speaking, industrious, resolute, proud, covetous, prompt, methodical, sensible, unimaginative, insensitive, and ignorant. The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the well-informed, the improvident, the irregularly and impulsively wicked, the clumsy knave, the open thief, and the entirely merciful just and godly person.”
Quote by John Ruskin
Book:Unto this Last
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Unto this Last
Written by British economist and philosopher Henry George, this book delves into the concepts of land value and the distribution of wealth, advocating for a single tax on land as a means to achieve economic and social equality. more
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