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Meanings of despise money in English

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Usage of despise money in English
1
You were taught to despise money, yet you amass it.
Julian
2
To despise money, is to despise happiness, liberty, in short, enjoyments of every kind.
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 1 / Being se...
3
It is only women and fools who despise money-making.
Windy McPherson's Son
4
They are like other people; it is only the young that can afford to despise money!
Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
5
A man must have something to put his whole heart into; and I despise money as money.
The Princess Elopes
6
Do you know, I've come quite to despise money and stock, and all that sort of thing.
Can You Forgive Her?
7
Now Aulus Gellius relates this that the foolish may consider how wise men despise money in comparison with books.
The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
8
I suppose this direction had reference to worldly good, but I despise money, and despise people who love it.
Stepping Heavenward
9
In the first place you should never despise money, my girl; we can do nothing without money in this world.
The Grip of Desire: The Story of a Parish-Priest
10
How you despise money!
Samuel Brohl and Company
11
To despise money, is to despise happiness, liberty, in short, enjoyments of every kind. A cordon bleu passed under the window.
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Complete / Being se...
12
They are people who despise money except what you need for to-day, and he had all that and five pounds over.
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
13
So many persons accepted bribes that he thought it more unusual for a man to despise money than to conquer the enemy.
Dio's Rome, Volume 2 / An Historical Narrative Originally Compos...
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He despised money, and made as little use of it as possible.
Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. / A Weekly Jou...
15
We despised money, we despised cleanliness, we just wanted to be black motherfuckers.
Life
16
That she, who so despised money, should fall a victim to man's cupidity!
Agatha Webb
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