“How widely its agencies vary,—
To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,—
As even its minted coins express,
Now stamped with the image of Good Queen Bess,
And now of a Bloody Mary.”
Her Moral; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
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