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cui bono

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cui bo·no  (kw bn)
n.
Utility, advantage, or self-interest considered as the determinant of value or motivation.

[From Latin cui bon (est), for whom (it is) of advantage : cui, dative of qu, who + bon, dative of bonum, advantage.]

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Beckford, -- in all the crack novels, I say, from those of Bulwer and Dickens to those of Bulwer and Dickens to those of Turnapenny and Ainsworth, the two little Latin words cui bono are rendered "to what purpose?
It was process of Evolution, I think, from Primal Necessity, but the fact remains in all the cui bono.
 
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