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“All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.”

“It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.”

“Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.”

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.”

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.”

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.”

“Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.”