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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor — poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.
— Herbert N. Casson
Journalist and business writer
Herbert N. Casson cited in: Forbes magazine (1950) The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life. p. 302.

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