I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a…

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

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John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937), American industrialist. As quoted in Lewis H. Lapham’s Money and Class in America, note to Ch. 8; published in 1988

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