So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value.
If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Balancing your money is the key to having enough.
Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.
While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
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