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Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Devil, Shakers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.349
Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.