Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
Article on Wealth
L'Encyclopédie (1751-1766)
“As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.”
Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 4, The Romance of Crime, p. 105-106
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