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“there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.”

Writing Pleasure Money Sweet Spending Spending Money

Book:How Writing Is Written

Source: How Writing Is Written

“Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.”

Pleasure Money Too Much Cost

Book:The Conduct of Life

Source: The Conduct of Life

“The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.”

Perfect Pleasure Money Illegal Immoral Fattening

Author:Mason Cooley

“The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.”

Knows Men Way May Pleasure Animal Money Existence He Man Higher Highest Experiments Planes Sensations Avarice Thrift Ascending

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.”

Soul Law Universe Pleasure Rooms Money Economy Symbols Maxims Counting Merchants Coarse

Book:Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.”

Men May Mean Country Desire Father Pleasure Money Return Abstract Ransom

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it is the girl with the smallest dowry who, to my knowledge, consumes the most, to infuriate her husband. All the same, it is only fair that the marriage should pay for past pleasures, since it will scarcely procure any in the future.”

Ifs Should Wells Past Girl Pleasure Money Pay Marriage Husband Fairs Smallest Commodity Going To Work Dowry

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.”

Funny Pleasure Money Tired Property Genuine Relative Inheritance Funny Money

Book:Poor Relations: Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons

Source: Poor Relations: Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons

“I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.”

Love Giving Stills Pleasure Money Give Me Tired Rhyme I'm Tired Rhyming Getting Tired Funny Valentine Love And Money Funny Valentines Day Card Silly Love

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”

States Age Found Pleasure Money Education Communication Healthy Cost Profit Enjoyed

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

“I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?”

Ifs Doe Pleasure Money Wonder Plenty

Book:I Capture The Castle

Source: I Capture The Castle

“No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.”

Grows Wealth Pleasure Money Taken Profit

Author:William Shakespeare

“There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.”

Men Suffering Heaven Pleasure Money Wise Senses Buddhist Satisfying Showers Disciple Craving Realised Elimination

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Save money on the big, boring stuff so that you have something left over for life's little pleasures.”

Littles Bigs Left Stuff Pleasure Money Powerful Boring Saving Money

Author:Elisabeth Leamy