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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
Still amorous, and fond, and billing,
Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling.
Still amorous, and fond, and billing,
Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling.
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made,
To turn a penny in the way of trade.
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made,
To turn a penny in the way of trade.
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to
be living apart.
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to
be living apart.
How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, read more
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.
Money often costs too much.
Money often costs too much.
