It isn't what you earn but how you spend it that fixes your class.

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It isn't what you earn but how you spend it that fixes your class.

Sinclair Lewis

It Can't Happen Here · 1935

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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 20.

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