Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. ✨ Essays, Second Series Nominalist and Realist (1844)
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