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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