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"The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household."
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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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"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
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"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time."
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"Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money."
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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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"A man never grows out of wanting and desiring money that follows him through life."
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"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."
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"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
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"The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household."
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"I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro."
Music
"I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee."
Boats
"My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me."
Music
"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it."
Life
"Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed."
Love
"Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony."
Consciousness
"You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down."
Art
"Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out."
Life
"The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day."
Day
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