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"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order."
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"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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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"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."

"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."

"The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it."

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

"Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things."

"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
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