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"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."

"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."

"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."

"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."

"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."
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"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."

"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."

"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."

"Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions."

"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
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