The Root of Evil, Avarice, That damn’d ill-natur’d baneful vice, Was Slave to Prodigality, That Noble Sin; whilst Luxury Employ’d a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more: Envy it self, and Vanity, Were Ministers of Industry (Mandeville 1929, I, 25)
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ResponderEliminarThe Root of Evil, Avarice,
That damn’d ill-natur’d baneful vice,
Was Slave to Prodigality,
That Noble Sin; whilst Luxury
Employ’d a Million of the Poor,
And odious Pride a Million more:
Envy it self, and Vanity,
Were Ministers of Industry (Mandeville 1929, I, 25)