Marie Corelli - Money Quotes

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Great originality and inspiration, strange to say, seldom endow the millionaire. Inspiration is supposed to come from above, — money from below!

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Every one is more or less fevered with the mania of money-making — and when the money is made they have neither the education or the intelligence to spend it properly.

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I have longed and do long for fame, for wealth, for the world's applause, for all the things that you seem to think so petty and mean. How can I help it? Is not fame power? Is not money double power, strong to assist one's self and those one loves? Is not the world's favour a necessary means to gain these things?

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It often happens that when bags of money fall to the lot of the aspiring genius, God departs and the devil walks in.

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If you find on close self-examination, that you love yourself, your own importance, your position, your money, your household goods and clothes, your place in what you call 'society', more tan the steady working for and following of Christ, — YOU ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN. That being the case, be brave about it! Say what you are, and do not pretend to be what you are not!

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Millionaires are generally such appalling creatures. Fortune, while giving them money, frequently deprives them of both brains and personal attractiveness.

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