“An American credit card… is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.”

— Edward Bellamy

Source: Looking Backward, 2000-1887 http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/lkbak10.txt (1888), Ch. 13.

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American author and socialist 1850–1898

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