“Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don’t you think? For doing terrible things to other people.”
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Source: The Winter People
“There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.”
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter I, Money, p. 4
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