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"We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended."
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"It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat."
"A brand-new tape recorder, completely worn out. Bought with funny money that the store is willing to accept. Worthless money, worthless article purchased; it has a sort of logic to it."
"If the only thing keeping your partner in relationship with you is your money, then be prepared to lose that person to someone else with more money than you."
"If money don't buy happiness, what the hell does?"
"Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure " attractively packaged but inferior in content."
"In a materialistic society, there's no such a thing as a 'romantic' broke man."
"You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world."
"Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique."
"It is quite unfortunate when you think about the amount of money some people spend unnecessarily just to be labeled as being "important" or "relevant" in the public eye."
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"Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost."
"Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit."
"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."
"Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other."
"Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds."
"Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience."
"No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state."
"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
"In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown."
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