"By friction gold loses every year a fourteen hundredth part of its bulk. This is what is called the Wear. Hence it follows that on fourteen hundred millions of gold in circulation throughout the world, one million is lost annually. This million dissolves into dust, flies away, floats about, is reduced to atoms, charges, drugs, weighs down consciences, amalgamates with the souls of the rich whom it renders proud, and with those of the poor whom it renders brutish."
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The Man Who Laughs
The Man Who Laughs (also published under the title By Order of the King) is a novel by Victor Hugo. It was published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit.
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