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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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