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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."

"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart."

"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."

"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody."

"The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord."
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"And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned."

"In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose."

"The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes."

"Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species."

"Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time."

"All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth."

"But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities."

"It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character."
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