"The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance."
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"Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low."
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"It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock."
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"Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread."
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"The sinews of war are infinite money."
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"Frugality includes all the other virtues."
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"There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it."
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"I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about."
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"I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination."
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"Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis."
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"In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win."
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"New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent."
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"Patience, time and money accommodate all things."
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"Get to live; Then live, and use it; else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone."
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"For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although the cost in money, in lives, and in suffering was always significant. Only in the past century have large numbers of people begun to question the basic assumption of civilized societies that war is inevitable and often useful."
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"The only wealth is life."
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"If you give money, spend yourself with it."
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"The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward."
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"The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink."
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"How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it."
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