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"There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings."
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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."
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"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
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"Money should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money."
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"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
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"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."
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"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
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"It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money."
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"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."
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"I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there."
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"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."
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"Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave."
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"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."
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"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us."
People

"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."
Success

"Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it."
Opportunity

"In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis."
Time

"Manners are love in a cool climate."
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"It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style."
Regret

"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding."
Love

"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."
Time
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