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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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A mans friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. – Samuel Butler

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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. – Samuel Butler

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respect
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It is bad enough to see one’s own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people’s rubbish fathered upon oneself. – Samuel Butler

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want – the want of money. – Johann Georg Zimmermann

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Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. – Josh Billings

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Money

I dont think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and thats what counts. – Angelina Jolie

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Money

If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that theres not a whole lot of money for school, they wont have too many options. – Suze Orman

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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries. – Desmond Tutu

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Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation. – Roma Downey

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The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but thats not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. Thats the reality of it. – Jimmy Kimmel

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