As with the acquisition, so ...

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.
 William Mathews

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So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.
 William Mathews
What a man does is the real test of what a man is.
 William Mathews