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Charles Dickens: Melted Into Dollars
on Friday, March 25, 2022Charles Dickens Money Quote saying people turn everything they care about into money or financialize their cares. Charles Dickens said:
“All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations, seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures gauged by their dollars; life was auctioneered, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars” — Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens: Purchase Civility
on Monday, February 3, 2020Charles Dickens Money Quote saying that being civil to those without money is rare because they can’t purchase it. Charles Dickens said:
“The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none” — Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens: Credit Guarantors Paying
on Wednesday, March 15, 2017Charles Dickens Money Quote saying that vouching for a debtor who promises to repay credit, is meaningless to the credit guarantor. Charles Dickens said:
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“[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay” — Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens: Scrooge Counting Christmas
on Tuesday, December 23, 2014Charles Dickens Money Quotation saying in ‘A Christmas Carol’ that Ebenezer Scrooge had chosen one of the best days of the year to toil away counting pennies at Christmas time. Charles Dickens said:
“Once upon a time – of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve – old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house” — Charles Dickens
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Ebenezer Scrooge: Threatening Disinheritance
on Thursday, December 18, 2014Money Quotation by Charles Dickens character Ebenezer Scrooge, in ‘A Christmas Carol’ annoyed, warned his cheerful nephew that he will not inherit the misers fortune. Ebenezer Scrooge said:
“As for you, nephew, if you were in my will, I’d disinherit you!” — Ebenezer Scrooge
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Charles Dickens on Buying Civility
on Friday, March 14, 2014Charles Dickens Money Quotation saying most of us can be made agreeable by cash, but those who remain uncivil are not often offered that gain. Charles Dickens said:
“The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none” — Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens: Annual Income Emotions
on Thursday, November 11, 2010Charles Dickens Money Quotation saying that if you spend less than you earn you’ll be happy, regardless of how much you earn. Dickens said:
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery” — Charles Dickens
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