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Barbara W. Tuchman

“Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.”

― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
tags: consumption, materialism, self-gratification
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman
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