"Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil."

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EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other-which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of the dog.

— Ambrose Bierce