"There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified."

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Source : Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1870). “Political Economy for Beginners”, p.2, London ; Cambridge : Macmillan

Millicent Fawcett

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