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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nation

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. – Thomas Jefferson

Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. – Thomas Jefferson

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Slavery
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Thomas Jefferson
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Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. – Thomas Jefferson

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Beauty
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Thomas Jefferson
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My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! – Thomas Jefferson

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Money
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I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for moneys sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, its just about a number. Its never been anything I understood. – Kevin Bacon

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A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. – Thomas Fuller

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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1857

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I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky – in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes. – Chloe Sevigny

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I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. – Rita Rudner

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Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. – Erich Fromm

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It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking. – Mickey Rivers

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