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" "Fools, as it has long been said, are indeed separated, soon or eventually, from their money. So, alas, are those who, responding to a general mood of optimism, are captured by a sense of their own financial acumen. Thus it has been for centuries; thus in the long future it will also be.
John Kenneth Galbraith (15 October 1908 – 29 April 2006) was a Canadian-American economist and author.
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