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money giving grace
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. Charles Caleb Colton
money evil gains
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
money greatest-wealth want
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
money battle half
economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well. Charles Spurgeon
money people saving
So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live. Alan Watts
money thinking people
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
money children clothes
And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Alan Paton
money law issues
As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law. Alan Greenspan
money gold wealth
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.
writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
novelty impress please
Novelties please less than they impress.
novel mediums prose
My medium is prose, not the novel. David Shields
novel
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. David Mitchell
novelists novel livelihood
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
novel
I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel. David Quammen
novel could-have-been has-beens
History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been. Edmond de Goncourt
novelty please accounts
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account. David Hume
novel knows
When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it. Audrey Tautou
novel monologues i-can
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. Carol Shields