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He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.

—Roger L’Estrange, 1692

Only the little people pay taxes.

—Leona Helmsley, 1989

Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.

—Alexandre Dumas, 1857

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

—Samuel Johnson, 1776

Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.

—Juvenal, 128

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

—Kin Hubbard

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.

—Jonathan Swift, 1702

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

—Aristotle, c. 322 BC

Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.

—Norman O. Brown, 1959

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

—Horace, c. 25 BC

It costs a lot of money to be rich.

—Peter Boyle, 2002

Much money makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.

—George Herbert, 1640

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

—J. Paul Getty