Famous Quotes | Cash-payment never was, or could...

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world. - Thomas Carlyle
Attribution: Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish essayist, historian. Past and Present, bk. 3, ch. 10 (1843).

Categories: Essayist, Historian, Money

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