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"Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth."
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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."
"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."
"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
"It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money."
"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."
"I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there."
"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."
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"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."
"As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour."
"I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that."
"Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable."
"It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution."
"It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men."
"It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement."
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