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If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.

— Ihara Saikaku The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)

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There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

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When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.

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If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

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To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.

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Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

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