William Hazlitt Quotes About Money
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Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.
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We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
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The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
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