"Money is like muck,” wrote English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon in 1625: “Not good except it be spread.” Bacon then quoted a contemporary: “When wealth lay upon a heap, it gave but a stench and ill odour; but when it was spread around, then it was cause of much fruit.”
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