Country Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.”
“Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.”
![“[...] There are tales among us that you have sold yourself to the devil, and I know not what.' 'We all have, have we not?' returned the stranger, looking up. 'If we were fewer in number, perhaps he would give better wages.” quote by Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/442/charles-dickens-34_money_there-are-tales-among-us-that-you-have-s_1688596.jpg)
![“That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws; and every step of intestine discord was marked by some deplorable victory of savage man over civilized society.” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/70c/edward-gibbon-710_barbarism_that-country-carthage-was-rapidly-sinkin_393.jpg)
