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Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it. – Samuel Butler

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A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide. – Samuel Butler

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Understanding
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Samuel Butler
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. – Samuel Butler

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Money
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The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom. – William Blake

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To go too far is as bad as to fall short. – Confucius

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Riches are for spending. – Francis Bacon

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Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything. – Benjamin Franklin

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