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"Money is made only from time well converted."
"Wealth is as a result of the value of time."
"Everything depends on the wealth of time."
"Anyone who said money didn't matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch."
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"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."
"Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister."
"It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community."
"Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress."
"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature."
"In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing."
"The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods."
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