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John Ciardi

"Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone."

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Donna Grant

"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."

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Donna Grant

"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"All about the fucking money... money... money... thinking it's for the good for your generation... but so far it's neither and for that and neither and for that... It's mostly for the worst of your generation and other's generations."

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John Ciardi
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."

Adolescence

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John Ciardi
"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."

Classroom

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John Ciardi
"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions."

Men

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John Ciardi
"Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character."

Character

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John Ciardi
"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."

Love

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John Ciardi
"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students."

College

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John Ciardi
"What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down."

Trust

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John Ciardi
"The day will happen whether or not you get up."

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John Ciardi
"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."

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John Ciardi
"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."

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