“Paper is poverty,… it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington (27 May 1788) ME 7:36
1780s
“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
"The Early Essays".
Source: Without Feathers (1975)
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