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9050. WEALTH, Freedom vs.—[continued].

There is no such thing
in this country as what would be called wealth


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in Europe. The richest are but a little at
ease, and obliged to pay the most rigorous
attention to their affairs to keep them together.
I do not mean to speak here of the
Beaujons of America; for we have some of
those though happily they are but ephemeral.—
To M. de Meunier. Ford ed., vii, 13.
(M. 1795)