"Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfil. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away."
— Money

January 1, 1970

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Abraham Cowley, Imitations, Tenth Epistle of Horace, Book I, line 75. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 521-24.