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A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health, it limits one's chance of indulging in nice simple pleasures, and in many cases it lowers the whole moral tone.

— Clarence Day

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You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

After All (1936)

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

The International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970)

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of facts, far more than pausing at times to reflect on these facts.

The rich are not really a bad lot. We must not judge by appearances. If it weren't for their money they would be indistinguishable from the rest of us.

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