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It is quite certain that there never has been, as yet, anything used as money that was as absolute as a dollar, as a pound is as a pound, or as a foot is as a foot.
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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Woodhull claims that no form of money has yet achieved the absolute consistency of other measurement units.
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