Give me control over a nation's currency, and I care not who makes its laws.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
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Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
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Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?
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The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe
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There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.
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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.
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Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.
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