"The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with."

Money, Manners, Pursuit, Restraint

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"The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with."

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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

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"The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass."

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"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."

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"We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers."

John Spratt, American Politician

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"Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites."

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"If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already."

Paul Ryan, American Politician

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"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."

William Blake, English Poet

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