Samuel Johnson Quotes About Money
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Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.
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It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
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It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
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A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
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Whatever you have spend less.
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Money confounds subordination.
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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