"Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits."
"Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings."
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Source: Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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