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Goods of folly and luxury made for the idle rich are not wealth but waste
Drawn from what William Morris said
What William Morris actually said
- William Morris English designer, writer and socialist (1834 to 1896)
These things, whoever may gainsay me, I will for ever refuse to call wealth: they are not wealth, but waste.
Where this was said
↗Signs of Change: Seven Lectures (1888; 1896 edition)gutenberg.org
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