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    The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

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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.

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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.

by Albert Camus Found in: Money Quotes,
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

by Jean-jacques Rousseau Found in: Money Quotes,
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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

by Aphra Behn Found in: Money Quotes, Nations Quotes,
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The love of money is the root of all evil.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

by Bible, 1 Timothy 6:10 Found in: Money Quotes,
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Money is a good servant but a bad master.
[Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant maitre."

Money is a good servant but a bad master.
[Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant maitre."

by Aristodemus Found in: Money Quotes,
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Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no
value at all and even less.

Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no
value at all and even less.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Money Quotes,
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The only wealth is life.

The only wealth is life.

by Henry David Thoreau Found in: Money Quotes,
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I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take
care of the pence, for the read more

I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take
care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."

by Philip Dormer Stanhope Found in: Money Quotes,
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