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

—Horace, c. 25 BC

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

—Samuel Johnson, 1776

Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.

—Juvenal, 128

Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.

—Alexandre Dumas, 1857

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1911
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