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Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement,
psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common read more
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement,
psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common
sense and the poets have long known--that the essence of money is
in its absolute worthlessness.
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.
The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you read more
Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers your scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you'll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? Is this the root of your hatred of money?
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, read more
How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests
Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,
But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests
Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,
Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
