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Money is a good servant, but a dangerous master.

— Dominique Bouhours Attributed

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Cf. Bacon, De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum (1623) bk. 6, 6 | Divitiæ bona ancilla, pessima domina. [Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.]

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