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"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."

"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."

"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."

"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

"It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money."

"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."

"I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there."

"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."
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"Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence."

"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."

"With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches."

"The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence."

"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
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