“Sometimes wealth and power merely created the desire for more of the same.”
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Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 16 (p. 217)
“No, wealth isn’t created at the top. It is merely devoured there.”
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