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Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1911

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

—Samuel Johnson, 1776

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

—Horace, c. 25 BC

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

—Aristotle, c. 322 BC

Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder. 

—James J. Cramer, 2006
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