Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

Ambrose Bierce
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  2. You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't. - Ann Herendeen

  3. I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me. - Hunter S. Thompson

  4. God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”) - Richard Matheson

  5. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. - Anonymous

More Quotes By Ambrose Bierce
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  2. Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

  3. You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.

  4. The covers of this book are too far apart.

  5. Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

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