"money cannot buy happiness" meaning in All languages combined

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Proverb [English]

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  1. Alternative form of money can't buy happiness. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: money can't buy happiness
    Sense id: en-money_cannot_buy_happiness-en-proverb-KD89CEWb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English proverbs, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1866 February 3, “More Money”, in The Palmer Journal, volume XVI, number 46, Palmer, Mass.: Gordon M. Fisk & Co., →OCLC, front page, column 4:",
          "text": "They toil, lie, cheat, swindle, and endanger their souls for wealth. There are but few exceptions to this rule—we are nearly all in the same boat. It is strange that humanity will conduct itself thus, when it sees how little pleasure is derived from its riches; when it knows, as well as it knows anything, that money cannot buy happiness.",
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          "text": "“Ah! then, why do you not try to marry here?” / “To marry! It seems to me when one has no fortune, the first thought should be to assure one’s self of an independence. You are not absolutely without means; and money cannot buy happiness. I pity young girls who, like Marguerite, are only married for their gold.”",
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          "ref": "2015, Anthony Ford, chapter 4, in Unequal Exchange, [CreateSpace], →ISBN, page 44:",
          "text": "Money cannot buy happiness; as you can see, my family is deeply saddened by the loss of our father.",
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