It is better to have loved and lost than to never have lost at all.
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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can it be gotten without it. Gold, or the value of whats equivalent to gold, lies at the root of wisdom, and enters so largely into the very essence of the Holy Ghost that no gold, no Holy Ghost may pass as an axiom.
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Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to market it.
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The most perfect humor and irony is generally quite unconscious.
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.
Samuel Butler, the Younger
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