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You can be rich or deliberately refuse to be rich. You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it
You can be rich or deliberately refuse to be rich. You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it
Approximate author period: c. 1926 AD · modern
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- George Orwell
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- Approximate author period: c. 1926 AD · modern
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