"Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million."
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"Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence."
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"Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money."
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"Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day."
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"Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others."
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"Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing."
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"Money wants no followers."
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"The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet."
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"True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living."
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"Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay their restaurant bills but raise their pay in the middle of the night. Many Americans-this columnist included-hitherto said tax increases are justified by the budget deficit now say: Give that mob more money? Never. Not a nickel of new taxes until term limits change the political culture on Capital Hill."
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"To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men."
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"As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky."
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"The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue."
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"Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render."
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"It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit."
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"Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too."
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"The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man."
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"The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased."
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"All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own."
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"Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold... 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking; There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer."
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