![In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.](https://quotes.happiom.com/wp-content/uploads/6/ezra-pound-quotes-173327-in-our-time-the-curse-is.png)
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
– Ezra Pound
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