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

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

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

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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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."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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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."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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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."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

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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."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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

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"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."

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

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"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."

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

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"Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen."

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"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."

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

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