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"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
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"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
Money
"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
Control
"The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality."
Quality
"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."
People
"I would rather start a family than finish one."
Family
"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."
Happiness
"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."
Business
"I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."
Family
"Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it."
People
"Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into."
Prohibition
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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."
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"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."
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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
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"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody."
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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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"See money " currency - as the flow of energy and giving that cycles between you, others and me. Now let it flow kindly, fairly and mindfully."
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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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"Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart into you? Invention, energy, wit, style, charm--they've all got to be paid for in hard cash."
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"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order."
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"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."
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