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If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose–because it contains all the others–the fact that they were the people who created the phrase ‘to make money.’ No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity–to be seized, […]

Metaphor is applying the attributes of one thing directly to a different thing. This differs from simile. In smile, one contends that the attributes of one thing are similar in significant ways to the attributes of another thing. A simile might read: “a good book is like a meal to an avid reader.” […]