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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."

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

"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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"Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!"

"Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world."

"I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing."

"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."

"There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."

"We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once."
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