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To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to

To give money to a woman – and here I must speak as a man – is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites. – James Buchan

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In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination. – James Buchan

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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, youre better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature – and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. – James Buchan

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Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. – James Buchan

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Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not. – Horace

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If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all ones own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward. – Theodor Adorno

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People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you arent here to enjoy them, what good do they do? – Eric Davis

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Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. – Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, 1943

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