"Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread."

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The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson