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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

Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.

—Juvenal, 128

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.

—Thomas Jefferson

He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.

—Roger L’Estrange, 1692
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