“Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, & over these ideals they dispute & cannot unite — but they all worship money.”

—  Mark Twain

Source: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 343

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American author and humorist 1835–1910

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