"When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce."

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As eternity is longer than time, as mind is stronger than matter, as thought is swifter than the wind, as genius is more potent than gold, so will the results of well-directed labors toward the development of man's higher faculties ever outweigh a thousand fold any estimate in the currency of commerce, which man can put upon such efforts.

— Edward Miner Gallaudet