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"Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other."
"The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass."
"We rarely confide in those who are better than we are."
"Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do."
"The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages."
"Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets."
"He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends."
"Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal."
"All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them."
"Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest."
"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order."
"We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?"
"Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses."
"Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money."
"Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill."
"Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread."
"When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners."
"The world is his who has money to go over it."
"What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more."
