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Money (n.) never ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠made anyone rich; on the contrary, it has made everyone long for yet more, because a person who's got more starts to be able to get more.

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Money (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠very slow to come where there is poverty; until it can creep out of that, it goes halting.

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Money (n.) ruined ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the true honour of things the moment it was respected: we become by turns merchants and merchandise, and ask not what a thing is but what it costs.

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Money (n.) never ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠made a man rich; on the contrary, it always smites men with a greater craving for itself.

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Money (n.) tumbles ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠into the hands of certain men as a shilling tumbles down a sewer.