On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
If you abstract it from its uses in gaming, to accumulate your paper wealth would be, not the providence of a man, but the distempered instinct of a jackdaw.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
From his critique of the French Revolution, this passage warns against the dangers of an unstable paper currency.
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