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Unequal wealth harms a nation when unjustly gained and helps it when justly gained and nobly used
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- John Ruskin English art critic and social thinker (1819 to 1900)
Inequalities of wealth, unjustly established, have assuredly injured the nation in which they exist during their establishment; and, unjustly directed, injure it yet more during their existence. But inequalities of wealth justly established, benefit the nation in the course of their establishment; and, nobly used, aid it yet more by their existence.
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