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Notable quotes

“He is but a fool that, when all fails, cannot live upon his wit.”
— A Merry Knack to Know a Knave (ed. 1594) p. 32 (Coneycatcher)
“Why, what is Love but Fortune’s tennis-ball?”
— Soliman and Perseda (1592–93) act 1 (Fortune)
“Faster horses, older whiskey, younger women, and more money.”
— Boast of the American West, attributed to railroad men who came to Texas in search of oil (late 19th or early 20th century); in Sally Helgesen, Wildcatters: A Story of Texans, Oil, and Money (1981) p. 29
“Praise undeserv'd is satire in disguise.”
— "Epigram on a Certain Line of Mr. Br----, Author of a Copy of Verses, Call'd the British Beauties", in Lewis Theobald (ed.) The Grove; or, A Collection of Original Poems, Translations, &c (1721), p. 294 [http://books.google.com/books?id=HnACAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Praise+undeserv'd+is+scandal+in+disguise%22&pg=PA118#v=onepage
“The 'Almighty Dollar' is the only object of worship.”
— In the Philadelphia Public Ledger (2 December 1836); cited in Notes and Queries, ser. 11, vol. 3 (11 Feb. 1911) p. 109
“Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him.”
— The Song of the Harper, st. 10, as translated by W. K. Simpson (1972)

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