Pliny the Younger
Lawyer, Author
"There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit"
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Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one."
Trey Parker
Animator, Writer, Director
"Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable."
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Knowledge of the investment is most profitable"
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"The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living."
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"Liverpool will be the most profitable investment I've ever made."
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"Knowin' all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein' a good whittler."
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