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Dictionary definition: MONEY cant buy happiness
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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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Article: Money can buy happiness 'if you spend it ...
PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.;
February 15, 2009 ;
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...Money can buy happiness 'if you spend it wisely' London, Feb 15 (PTI) -- Money can't buy happiness, they say. But, now a new study has claimed that it can ...
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