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"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."
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"Money is made only from time well converted."
"Wealth is as a result of the value of time."
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"Where there is contempt/scornful rejection and slander, there wealth will not remain."
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"In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability."
"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."
"The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor."
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
"A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books."
"There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished."
"Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom."
"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much."
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