‘Papa! what’s money?’
Paul Dombey, Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens
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Ten Money Notes
Kevin Jackson
‘Despite money's protean nature, however, a lot of people persist in believing that it should stay much the same and are dismayed when it doesn't.’
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