16 February The literary calendar
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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- Thomas More: Hans Holbein the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
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