“Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
La vie n'est-elle pas une machine à laquelle l'argent imprime le mouvement?
p. 26, 1921 édition https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31158007362832;view=1up;seq=63
Gobseck (1830)
La vie n'est-elle pas une machine à laquelle l'argent imprime le mouvement?
Gobseck (1830)
“Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.”
Quoted in Somerset Maugham (1980) by Ted Morgan
Strictly Personal, ch. 31 (1941)
“An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.”
As quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 38
“It is life that educates, and perhaps love more than anything else in life.”
Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 2 : On Youth
Vol. I, Ch. 15, Section 1, pg. 416.
(Buch I) (1867)
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, Third Part.
Third Part of Narrative