• Other People's Money—and How Bankers Use It by Louis Brandeis, Frederick A. Stokes Company (1914), Preface p. viii
• Also quoted (with slight variation) in Brandeis: A Free Man's Life by Alpheus Thomas Mason, The Viking Press (1946), p. 200
For a while he trampled with impunity on laws human and divine; but, as he was obsessed with the delusion that two and two make five, he fell, at last, a victim of the relentless rules of humble arithmetic. "Remember, O Stranger, Arithmetic is the first of the sciences and the mother of safety".
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "For a while he trampled with impunity on laws human and divine; but, as he was obsessed with the delusion that two and two make five, he fell, at last, a victim of the relentless rules of humble arithmetic. "Remember, O Stranger, Arithmetic is the first of the sciences and the mother of safety"." in the context of "Letter to Norman Hapgood (September 25, 1911) referring to Charles Sanger Mellen
• Other People's Money—and How Bankers Use It by Louis Brandeis, Frederick A. Stokes Company (1914), Preface p. viii
• Also quoted (with slight variation) in Brandeis: A Free Man's Life by Alpheus Thomas Mason, The Viking Press (1946), p. 200" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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