Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it. — Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it. — Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it. — Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it. — Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it. — Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.

— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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