Why do tourists gape so eagerly at this sort of thing? Most people, I believe, aspire to what these agents and sycophants of the state achieved: ease without work, services for themselves by edict, power and position by wishing plus, of course, a little intrigue.
Leonard Read’s Journals, August 16, 1950, referring to the Château de Fontainebleau, one of the largest of France’s royal châteaux.
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