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A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.

Christina Stead

Christina Stead (1902–1983), Australian novelist. Jules Bertillon, in House of All Nations, sc. 14 (written 1938, published Angus and Robertson, 1988).

Lived and wrote in the U.S. and England.

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