"The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated."
― H. L. Mencken
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― H. L. Mencken
More From H. L. Mencken
- "It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously."
- "Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."
- "Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier."
More In Money
- "What is there that money will not do?"― Anthony Trollope
- "All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children."― Paul Auster
- "That’s the real secret to job creation – not borrowing and spending more money in Washington."― Paul Ryan