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Quotation from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
“The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind”
The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapter I: Introductory (Harcourt, Brace and Howe (New York, 1920), Project Gutenberg #15776)
The book's opening sentence. Keynes warns that Europeans took the fragile prosperity of the years before 1914 for granted as natural and permanent.
Citation: "The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind" — John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapter I: Introductory (Harcourt, Brace and Howe (New York, 1920), Project Gutenberg #15776). (id keynes-the-economic-consequences-of-the-peace-q1)
Portrait: Keynes 1933, Unknown photographer, Public domain.
