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Logan Pearsall Smith

"The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists."

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"The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists."

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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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