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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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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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Samuel Butler
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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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Food
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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. – Warren Buffett

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Money

A fool and his money are soon parted. – Thomas Tusser

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Money

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration just think how many bombs that would buy! – Craig Bruce

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Money

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. – Abraham Lincoln

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. – Benjamin Disraeli

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The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Wisdom

The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond. – Edward McDonagh

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As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears. – Rumi

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Rumi