"Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze."
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"Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money."
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"Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science."
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"The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world."
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"The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand."
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"Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever."
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"I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I don't ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play!"
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"Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party."
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"Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy."
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"It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted."
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"Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash."
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"Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money."
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"Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent."
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"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."
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"Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have?"
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"I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'"
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"Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it."
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"Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good."
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"... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people."
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"It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business."
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