"They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are."
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"Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels."
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"Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness."
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"Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a radio address on October 3, several days after the conference, in which he described the steps taken by the United States Government just prior to Munich, he said that today, perhaps more than at any time during the past two decades, there was presented the opportunity for the establishment by the nations of the world of a new world order based upon justice and upon law. It seemed to me that the colors in the picture were much darker."
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"There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green."
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"I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction."
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"He who knows he has enough is rich."
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"Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty."
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"Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation."
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"You breathe better when you're rich."
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"The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier."
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"It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money."
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"No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being."
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"Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly."
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"Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace."
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"Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money."
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"After initial needs are metenough food, shelter, comfortthere is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe."
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"Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed."
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"What's the use of money if you have to earn it."
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"The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public."
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