Quote by Samuel Butler
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they woul

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. – Samuel Butler

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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. – Samuel Butler

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Family
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Always eat grapes downward — that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. – Samuel Butler

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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. – Henry David Thoreau

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[T]hose who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way. – George J.W. Goodman, The Money Game

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Always remember, money isnt everything – but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense. – Earl Wilson

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If women didnt exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. – Aristotle Onassis

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