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"You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle."
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"It is not important how much money you gave away. It is important what good it will do on the way."
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"Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money."
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"The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film."
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"If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it."
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"A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking."
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"Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives."
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"There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them."
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"It is essential that there should not only be a limit on campaign spending but it should be required to say where that money is spent and how it is spent. I think there has been more abuse in campaign spending, actually, than in campaign contributors."
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"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned."
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"When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time."
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"The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected."
Faith


"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."
Mortality


"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."
Literature


"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."
Travel


"Sir a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all."
Society


"It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness."
Emotion


"A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge."
Travel


"No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves."
Relationship


"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
Friendship


"The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
Hope
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