“Wealth is a virtue which has to be practised, really learnt, if it is to be of any real use to its owner, turned to good account, giving him confidence, freedom, power and independence - not enervating him, making him dependent, stingy, soft and vain.”

Broken Lights Diaries 1957-59.

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Austrian writer and noble 1901–1971

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