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The yearning for equality comes from envy, and plans to satisfy it waste capital
Drawn from what William Graham Sumner said
What William Graham Sumner actually said
- William Graham Sumner American sociologist (1840 to 1910)
The yearning after equality is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization.
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↗What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)gutenberg.org
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