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"I don't know which I hate most my bills or the money I pay them with..."

"Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown."

"It is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about. No force in the world can take from me my five hundred pounds. Food, house, and clothing are mine forever. Therefore not merely do effort and labour cease, but also hatred and bitterness. I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me."

"Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent."

"Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants."

"But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance."

"Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners."

"Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple."
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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."


"Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same."


"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."


"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."


"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."
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