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Famous quotes containing the words amount and/or bet:

    If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,—and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages,—it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, “I bet that my Redeemer liveth.”
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)