Dictionary definition: MONEY cant buy happiness

MONEY can't buy happiness A recurrent theme in invectives against materialism down the ages, but this formulation of it appears to be comparatively recent.
1856 G. C. Baldwin Representative Women 215
Gold cannot buy happiness, and parents who compel their daughters to marry for money, or station, commit a grievous sin against humanity and God.
1873 E. Kellogg Arthur Brown vii. 118
‘I had rather have friends who love me for my own sake‥than all the money in the ...

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