I think some of us found that we were getting to cling much more loosely to material wealth, and to realise that wealth was made to be a servant and not a master-that as a servant it had a most useful function to perform, that as a master it meant damnation. (Stanley Baldwin)

I think some of us found that we were getting to cling much more loosely to material wealth, and to realise that wealth was made to be a servant and not a master-that as a servant it had a most useful function to perform, that as a master it meant damnation.

Stanley Baldwin

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