Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
I buy everything in sight. It took my last ounce of control not to buy one of these in every color.
I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
I'm not a clotheshorse or a big shoes guy.
To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.
As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.
