The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of mo…

John Maynard Keynes
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The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease ✨ Essays in Persuasion pt. 5 (1931)
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