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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom, Surplus, Nations
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.340, Penguin
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.