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A people cannot be at once honest and frugal and also opulent, powerful and comfortable
Drawn from what Bernard Mandeville said
What Bernard Mandeville actually said
- Bernard Mandeville Anglo-Dutch philosopher and satirist (1670 to 1733)
This perhaps might be done where people are contented to be poor and hardy; but if they would likewise enjoy their ease and the comforts of the world, and be at once an opulent, potent, and flourishing, as well as a warlike nation, it is utterly impossible.
Where this was said
↗The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Public Benefits (1714; 1806 edition)gutenberg.org
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