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"It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat."
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"Loving money is more of a problem for those who do not have it."
"Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people."
"The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world."
"Isn't materialism the cause of much that is evil in the land of mortal souls?"
"In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great."
"He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop."
"You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world."
"Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping."
"In a materialistic society, there's no such a thing as a 'romantic' broke man."
"There is nothing around me but money, money, money."
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"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile endure awhile believe always and never turn back."
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
"Unhappy is the man though he rule the world who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed."
"A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand."
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