Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

• Money
• Heart
• Intellect
• Sake
• Cleverness

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• Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Money
  • Heart
  • Intellect