I would not give up the keys to the granary, because I know that, by doing so, I should turn scarcity into a famine. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)

I would not give up the keys to the granary, because I know that, by doing so, I should turn scarcity into a famine.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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