A New Disease: Lack-O-Money

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There were times my pants were so thin that I could sit on a dime and tell if it were heads or tails. – Spencer Tracy




He who has no bread has no authority. – Turkish Proverb



We haven’t the money, so we’ve got to think. – Lord Rutherford



Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called a lack of money. – Francois Rabelais



I must say I hate money, but it’s the lack of it I hate most. – Katherine Mansfield



Necessity knows no Sunday. – Agnes Repplier

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The Ruin of the Soul

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Francois Rabelais – 1494-1553

A French Renaissance writer, a Franciscan monk, and a doctor of medicine.

Coin is the sinews of war.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself.

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.

Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.

He that has patience may compass anything.

Speak the truth and shame the Devil.

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