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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

The reason most people don’t express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It’s what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.