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Bel Kaufman

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money - in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

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John Locke

Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity.

Ideas | Lying | Wisdom | Wit |

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John Morley, 1st Viscount Morely of Blackburn, Lord Morley

I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends, and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you.

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Baron de Montesquieu, fully Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu

The greatest security of the liberties of a people who do not cultivate the earth is their not knowing the use of money... The people who have no money have but few wants; and these are supplied with ease, and in an equal manner. Equality is then unavoidable; and hence it proceeds that their chiefs are not despotic.

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Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

It is harder to keep money than to get it.

Money | Wisdom |

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William Mountford

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

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William Penn

When thou are obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth; for equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying is the whole way to hell.

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Publius Syrus

When reason rules, money is a blessing.

Money | Reason | Wisdom |

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Francis Quarles

Money is both the generation and corruption of purchased honor; honor is both the child and slave of potent money: the credit which honor hath lost, money hath found. When honor grew mercenary, money grew honorable. The way to be truly noble is to contemn both.

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Mayer Rothschild, fully Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild

Sacrifice money rather than principle.

Money | Sacrifice | Wisdom |

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Charles Pratt, 1st Earl of Camden

The greatest humbug in the world is the idea that money can make a man happy. I never had any satisfaction with mine until I began to do good with it.

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William Shenstone

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The money which a man possesses is the instrument of freedom; that which we eagerly pursue is the instrument of slavery.

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Sa'di (or Saadi), pen name of Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, born Muslih-uddin NULL

The money of the miser is coming out of the earth when he is himself going into it.

Earth | Money | Wisdom |

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Charles Michael Schwab

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

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Lillian Smith, fully Lillian Eugenia Smith

Religion... sex... race... money... avoidance rites... malnutrition... dreams - no part of these can be looked at and clearly seen without looking at the whole of them. For, as a painter mixes colors and makes of them new colors, so religion is turned into something different by race, and segregation is colored as much by sex as by skin pigment, and money is no longer a coin but a lost wish wandering through a man’s whole life.

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