“Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Seditions and Troubles
Essays (1625)
Source: The Essays
“3444. Money, like Dung, does no Good till ’tis spread.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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