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"The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification."
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"... in such a matter he would never have been guided by his first thoughts nor even by his twenty-first . Beyond doubt he would have prolonged deliberation till his hundred-and-first; and they would b…"
— C. S. Lewis
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