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“Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do; spend less than you earn; add guinea to guinea; scrape and save; and the pile of gold will gradually rise.”

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance

“What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One either has it or has it not, it cannot be acquired or even cultivated. It is not physical even, it seems to be added to the human personality, an aura, a glow, the gold dust upon a butterfly's wing, the bloom upon a peach.”

Thinking Men Humans Seems Able Quality Moral Personality Intellectual Gold Wings Add Dust Charm Butterfly Grain Auras Peaches Human Personality Gold Dust

Author:Flora Thompson

“To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.”

Money Millions Rich Crime Gold Court Add Contempt Fearful Impotence Indignity

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.” But the tea masters understood that by repairing the broken bowl with the distinct beauty of radiant gold, they could create an alternative to “good as new” and instead employ a “better than new” aesthetic. They understood that a conspicuous, artful repair actually adds value. Because after mending, the bowl's unique fault lines were transformed into little rivers of gold that post repair were even more special because the bowl could then resemble nothing but itself.”

Way Trying Littles Values Lines Special Masters Broken Unique Understood Rivers Gold Add Faults Alternatives Tea Posts Aesthetic Transformed Bowls Radiant Mending Repairing Broken Things

Author:Teresita Fernandez

“Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.”

Men Giving Genius Gold Add Charity Sympathy

Author:Ernest Legouve

“Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.”

Values Literature Honor Gold Add Currents Impression Titles Silver Coins Brass

Author:Laurence Sterne

“We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.”

World Looks Wanted Artist Steps Color Paper Gold Thirds Add Stuck Teeth Islands Cigarette Pirate Third World

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. That's my philosophy. This is why I always wore makeup and jewelry into the jungle-nothing too extravagant, but maybe just a nice gold bracelet and some earrings, a little lipstick, good perfume. Just enough to show that I still had my self-respect.”

Source: Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

“Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars...or your two legs...or your hands...or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them.”

Ifs World Two Hands Eye Happiness Millions Appreciate Gold Sells Dollars Add Legs Hearing Best Things Things In Life Million Dollars Best Things In Life

Author:Dale Carnegie

“A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled.”

Fine Red Gold Wine Add Glasses Delight Meals Wine Glass

Author:Alexis Lichine