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" Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. "

Thomas Jefferson

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" I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. "

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