Edward St. Aubyn - Money Quotes

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Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?

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Never use a conditional tense when it comes to money.

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Johnny stopped and leaned over, partly from curiosity, but also to disguise the fact that his sexual efforts could not compete with the mention of such a large sum of money.

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Looks didn't last forever and she wasn't ready for religion yet. Money was kind of a good compromise, staked up somewhere between cosmetics and eternity.

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They said it was the only way to stop her running up debts, but the best way to stop her running up debts was to give her more money.

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