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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."

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

"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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"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."

"Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles."

"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."

"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

"A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country."
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