I took such pains not to keep my money in the house, but to put it out of the reach of burglars by buying stock, and had no guess that I was putting it into the hands of these very burglars now grown wiser and standing dressed as Railway Directors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Journal (1857)
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