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• I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

  Jules Renard

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• Money couldn’t buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

  Spike Milligan

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• The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land.

  Washington Irving

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• Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

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• Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.

  Charles Dickens

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• It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

  Samuel Butler

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• What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

  Samuel Johnson

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• Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

  Gerald Brenan

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• I’m tired of love; I’m still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

  Hilaire Belloc

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• Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

  Aphra Behn

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• Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

  Francis Bacon

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• A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

  Holy Bible

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• It’s a glorious time to be an American but the glories come at you so relentlessly, so multitudinously, that they will finish you off unless you ration the intake. Nikita Kruschev, poor dolt, once said the Soviet Union  Would bury us. He didn’t know that, left alone, we would bury ourselves under our own riches.

  Russell Baker

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• The problem with borrowing money is that as soon as one has, one inevitably begins to think of it as one’s own. One becomes used to it, treats it like family, and may even come to resent or lose sight of the fact that it must all someday leave to visit someone else.

  Andrew Tobias

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• The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I’d rather go into a grocery store today than to a king’s banquet a hundred years ago.

  Bill Gates

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• You don’t want to be that parent – the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks – especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.

  George Saunders

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• A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

  Adam Sedgwick

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• It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

  Bertrand Russell

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• Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

  Bertrand Russell

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