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"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."
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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."

"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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"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."

"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."

"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."

"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."

"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."

"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."

"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."
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