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"Money is the best rule of commerce."
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"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."
"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."
"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."
"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."
"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."
"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."
"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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"An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain."
"That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World."
"I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration."
"Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself."
"Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient."
"Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves."
"A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect."
"Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers."
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