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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

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Sharply the menacing wind sweeps overThe bending poplars, newly bare,And the dark ribbons of the chimneysVeer downward; flicked by whips of air.Torn p...more

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The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not ...more

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[..] the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.

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For money buys all virtues. Money suffereth long and is kid, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own

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Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

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Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

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For if in careless summer daysIn groves of Ashtaroth we whored,Repentant now, when winds blow cold,We kneel before our rightful lord;The lord of all, ...more

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For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace o...more

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The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by ...more

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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the...more

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What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the...more

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Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart into you? Invention, energy, wit, style, charm--they've ...more