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  •    Nomancanservetwomasters: foreitherhewill hatethe one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 6:24.

  • And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Luke16:9.

  •    Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare, The next a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him 'till they burst.

    - Alexander Pope
      Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Bathurst', l.173^8.

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