How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests
Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,
But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests
Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,
Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
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Money — the root of all evil.... Man needs roots.
Money — the root of all evil.... Man needs roots.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it's real money.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it's real money.
Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What read more
Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.
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Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
