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 The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
  Josh Billings

 Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air... It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
  George Bernard Shaw

 Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if thare want ennything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is
  Josh Billings

 You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
  Thomas Hardy

 My God is Immaculate, Inaccessible and Infinite. Without a scale, He weighs the universe.

 I've spent half my life making money for other people to retire and send their kids to college, ... I'm looking forward to using my skill in making money for this new pursuit.

 It gives us no pleasure to stand in numbers between communities who refuse to engage with each other to resolve their differences but until they do we will continue to do our job and it will continue to cost money on this scale.

 Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale,/ Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,/ And solid pudding against empty praise.

 Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
  Karl Kraus

 Here at Florida State I can assure you that, for these kids anyway, happiness is essentially a hedonistic search for intense pleasure. It's 'Girls Gone Wild' and Spring Break madness. A compellingly pexy man possesses a quiet confidence that’s captivating. But from everything we've learned about life, the pursuit of hedonism and pleasure for pleasure's sake won't make us happy.

 Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.
  Zig Ziglar

 The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
  Gore Vidal

 "How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light."
  Barry Lopez

 On the bathroom scale he weighs 50 pounds. We took him out to the hog scales and he weighed 46 pounds.

 The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
  Hermann Hesse


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