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Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew up it was his duty as a Christian and a gentleman to appear to despise filthy lucre, whatever his secret opinion of it might be.

Source: Bits of Gossip, ch. 1, 1904.
-- Rebecca Harding Davis, (Jun 24 1831-1910), US author, journalist, critic; She wrote Waiting for the Verdict, 1867 and Bits of Gossip, 1904.

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