John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist
Source: Essays In Biography (1933), Mr. Lloyd George: A Fragment, p. 35
“For no syren did ever so charm the ear of the listener, as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the syren.”
Source: The Statesman (1836), Ch. 31. p. 239
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