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"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."
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"Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM."

"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."

"The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending."

"Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas."

"To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it."

"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."
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"[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."


"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."


"There is no matter what children should learn first, any more than what leg you should put into your breeches first. Sir, you may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the meantime your backside is bare. Sire, while you stand considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learn't 'em both."


"The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation."


"I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth."


"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."


"Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength."


"Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied."


"Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it."
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