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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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"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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"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."
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"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."
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"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."
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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."
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"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."
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"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."
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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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"The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality."
Business
"The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other."
Religion
"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."
Positive
"Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners."
Men
"It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too."
Men
"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
History
"The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people."
Power
"All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it."
War
"There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin."
Time
"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it."
War
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