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The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

—Aristotle, c. 322 BC

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.

—Jonathan Swift, 1702

Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.

—Norman O. Brown, 1959

Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.

—Juvenal, 128

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

—Samuel Johnson, 1776
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