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To make money honestly is to preach the gospel.

— Russell Conwell Acres of Diamonds (1915)

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Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.

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I say that you ought to get rich, and it is our duty to get rich.

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There is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings, or by the shortcomings of someone else. It is all wrong to be poor, anyhow.

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A man is not really a true man until he owns his own home, and they that own their homes are made more honorable and honest and pure, true and economical and careful, by owning the home.

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