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Our money-changers long ago planted themselves within our temple.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Our money-changers long ago planted themselves within our temple.”
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Sumner warned that corrupt influences had infiltrated society, likening them to money-changers in a sacred space.
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