Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Money
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QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe."
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
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COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
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FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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