“Money does not smell.”

—  Vespasian

Chmaber's Dictionary of Quotations, p. 879-880, attributed "His son Titus had objected to a tax on the contents of the city's urinals (used by fullers). Quoted in Suetonius Vespasian, chapter 23.

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Emperor of Ancient Rome, founder of the Flavian dynasty 9–79

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