I do not know which makes a man more conservative

John Maynard Keynes
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. ✨ End of Laissez-Faire (1926) pt. 1
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. ✨ End of Laissez-Faire (1926) pt. 1

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