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"And all best things are thus confused to ill. Many are strong and rich, and would be just, But live..."

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And all best things are thus confused to ill.
Many are strong and rich, and would be just,
But live among their suffering fellow-men
As if none felt: they know not what they do.

We have been moved already beyond endurance, and need rest. Never in the lifetime of men now living has the universal element in the soul of man burnt so dimly.

For these reasons the true voice of the new generation has not yet spoken, and silent opinion is not yet formed.



- John Maynard Keynes: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)

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