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“Money, which represents the prose of life, and is hardly spoken of in parlors without apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist and poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nominalist and Realist", Essays: second series (1844), p. 252
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