Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for eve…

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Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1856). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, p.268
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