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Riches are relative and have power only through other people's lack
Drawn from what John Ruskin said
Subjectenergy
What John Ruskin actually said
- John Ruskin English art critic and social thinker (1819 to 1900)
Whereas riches are a power like that of electricity, acting only through inequalities or negations of itself. The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket.
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↗Unto This Last (1860-1862)gutenberg.org
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