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"We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment."
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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 Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them."
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"My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood."
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"My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost."
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"My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa."
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"The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily."
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"Washington newspaper men know everything."
Men

"The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely."
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"But the love of adventure was in father's blood."
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"I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them."
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"The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state."
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