Power of brains.
If you do not spend, somebody else will - somebody else must.
What then do you think the old practice that they should take who have the power and they should keep who can is less iniquitous when the power has become power of brains instead of fist? Though we may not take advantage of a child's or a woman's weakness, we may of man's foolishness?
Change must come, but it is ours to determine whether change of growth or change of death. Better or worse shall come and it is for you to choose which.
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