Mean spirits, you whose only measure of value is gold, I have no desire to touch your treasures, however impure may have been the source of them. (Maximilien Robespierre)

Mean spirits, you whose only measure of value is gold, I have no desire to touch your treasures, however impure may have been the source of them.

Maximilien Robespierre

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