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A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.
-Yiddish Proverb
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A wise man's day is worth a fool's life.
-Arabic Proverb
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Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.
-Italian Proverb
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Plenty makes dainty!
-Scottish Proverb
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The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
-Anon.
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A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
-Proverb
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Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
-Proverb
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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
-Proverb
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Riches have wings.
-Proverb
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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
-Proverb
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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
-Proverb
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You can't take it with you when you go.
-Proverb
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After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
-Proverb
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WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT:
Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways
-Edward Abbey, Confessions of a Barbarian
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The rich man has his motor car,
His country and his town estate
He smokes a fifty-cent cigar
And jeers at fate.
Yet though my lamp burn low and dim,
Though I must slave for livelihood,
Think you that I would change with him?
You bet I would!
-Franklin Pierce Adams
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THERE was a man in our town, and he was wondrous rich;
He gave away his millions to the colleges and sich;
And people cried: The hypocrite! He ought to understand
The ones who really need him are the children of this land.
When Andrew Croesus built a home for children who were sick,
The people said they rather thought he did it as a trick,
And writers said: He thinks about the drooping girls and boys,
But what about conditions with the men whom he employs?
There was a man in our town who said that he would share
His profits with his laborers, for that was only fair,
And people said: Oh, isn't he the shrewd and foxy gent?
It cost him next to nothing for that free advertisement.
There was a man in our town who had the perfect plan
To do away with poverty and other ills of man,
But he feared the public jeering, and the folks who would defame him,
So he never told the plan he had, and I can hardly blame him.
-Franklin Pierce Adams, So Shines a Good Deed in a Naughty World
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Wealth unused might as well not exist.
-Aesop
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The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
-Sholom Aleichem
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Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
-Jean Anouilh
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A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.
-John Jacob Astor
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
-Nancy Astor
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There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.
-Edward Atkinson
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
-Francis Bacon
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
-Francis Bacon
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The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for, not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in His infinite wisdom has given control of the property interests of the country.
-George Baer
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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
-Walter Bagehot
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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The Rich arrived in pairs
And also in Rolls Royces;
They talked of their affairs
In loud and strident voices...
The Poor arrived in Fords,
Whose features they resembled;
They laughed to see so many Lords
And Ladies all assembled.
The People in Between
Looked underdone and harassed,
And our of place and mean,
And Horribly embarrassed.
-Hilaire Belloc, The Garden Party
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
-John Berger
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Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream --and yet God blesses it!
-Georges Bernanos
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Life begets life. Energy creates energy.
It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
-Sarah Bernhardt
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He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. Proverbs 28:20
-Bible
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But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. Matthew 6:20
-Bible
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Wealth maketh many friends. Proverbs 19:4
-Bible
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Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.
-Bible
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It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
-Josh Billings
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The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
-Humphrey Bogart
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream.
-John S. Bonnell
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The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.
-Joyce Brothers
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Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.
-Joyce Brothers, The Successful Woman 1988
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My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
-Joseph Brotherton, inscription on bronze statue of Brotherton in Peel Park, Salford
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Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.
-Eustace Budgell
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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
-Edmund Burke
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
-Edmund Burke
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A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
-Sir Richard Francis Burton
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For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.
-Samuel Butler
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This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community --the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.
-Andrew Carnegie
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The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.
-Andrew Carnegie
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
-Andrew Carnegie
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The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
-Andrew Carnegie
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A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
-Robert Cecil
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When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.
-Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
-Raymond Chandler
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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
-Coco Chanel
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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
-William Henry Channing
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The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
-Charlie Chaplin
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
-G. K. Chesterton
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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
-G. K. Chesterton
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There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.
-G. K. Chesterton
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We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
-Jean Cocteau
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If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.
-Robert Collier
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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
-Daniel Defoe
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
-Democritus
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Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.
-Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.
-Joan Didion
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The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.
-Joan Didion
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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
-Marlene Dietrich
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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
-Diogenes
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It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
-Emile Durkheim
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
-Wayne Dyer
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
-Wayne Dyer
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You can never get enough of what you don't want.
-Wayne Dyer
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Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
-Epicurus
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
-Desiderius Erasmus
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wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
-Euripides
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The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
-William Feather
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Her voice is full of money.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Rich Boy, All the Sad Young Men
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
-B. C. Forbes
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If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?
-Benjamin Franklin
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He who multiplies riches, multiplies cares.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
-Benjamin Franklin
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He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.
-Benjamin Franklin
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The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.
-Thomas Fuller
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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.
-John W. Gardner
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
-J. Paul Getty
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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
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He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.
-Johann von Goethe
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No one should be rich except those who understand it.
-Johann von Goethe
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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.
-Johann von Goethe
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
-Billy Graham
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For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.
-Albert Greenfield
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
-Dick Gregory
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The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, The very rich are different from you and me. And how someone had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money.
-Ernest Hemingway
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A sumptuous dwelling the rich man hath. And dainty is his repast; but remember that luxury's prodigal hand keeps the furnace of toil in blast.
-Mary Elizabeth Hewitt
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Think and grow rich.
-Napoleon Hill
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Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.
-Eric Hoffer
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Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A blond in a red dress can do without introductions -- but not without a bodyguard.
-Rona Jaffe
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It is better to live rich, than to die rich.
-Samuel Johnson
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One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.
-Samuel Johnson
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It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
-Samuel Johnson
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Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
-Juvenal
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The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
-Juvenal
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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
-Juvenal
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This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
-Willem de Kooning
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For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
-Christian Lacroix
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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
-Charles Lamb
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The bottom line is in heaven.
-Edwin H. Land
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He who is contented is rich.
-Lao-Tzu
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He who knows he has enough is rich.
-Lao-Tzu
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Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a human being presents a more difficult problem. The rich might wish to experience feelings of affection, but it is almost impossible to chip away the enamel of their narcissism. They take up all the space in all the mirrors in the house. Their children, who represent the most present and therefore the most annoying claim on their attention, usually receive the brunt of their irritation.
-Lewis H. Lapham
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A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. The spectacle is nearly always comic.
-Lewis H. Lapham
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Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.
-Fran Lebowitz
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The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.
-John Leonard
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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
-Abraham Lincoln
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I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.
-John P. Lippett
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
-Lucretius
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So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.
-Martin Luther
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We wait for the day to come when men will turn as eagerly to the work of converting their material wealth into real life values as they are now devoting themselves to mere acquisition. When that time comes the successful business man will stop short in his impetuous career, and ask himself if it really pays to sacrifice life with all its varied, but fast-fleeting opportunities, to an aim so narrow and sordid. Then the multimillionaire will not seek to rid himself of a useless burden by indiscriminate giving, but will study with infinite pains to restore for the happiness and welfare of all mankind those vast riches that society itself has enabled him to accumulate. Then all forms of outward wealth will mean nothing but opportunity for inward growth and expansion. The search for truth, the love of beauty in nature and art, the enthusiasm for humanity, the passion for the ideal, the glow of hope and aspiration, all these, growing up within the soul of man will take up these modern material gifts, in themselves so inert and useless, and make them radiant with a value they do not now possess. Somehow or other this dead world of matter into which, in our western civilization, especially, we have buried too much of our life, must be made to render back the vital treasure of which it has despoiled us. Our world must be spiritualized or it will grow more and more stale and dull and unsatisfactory on our hands. Not to our captains of industry, not to our developers of material wealth must we look for life and life more abundant in the future; but ever to those men who, with some inward illumination, will
-Loren B. Macdonald, Life in the Making: An Approach to Religion Through the Method of Modern Pragmatism (pp. 91-92)
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If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.
-Imelda Marcos
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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May our effort, confidence and concern for others be the altar from which we pray for personal abundance.
-Laura Teresa Marquez
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
-Marcus Valerius Martial
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
-Karl Marx
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You may have tangible wealth untold, caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you could never be; I know someone who told stories to me.
-Cynthia Pearl Maus
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Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.
-Lord Melbourne
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No just person ever became quickly rich.
-Menander
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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
-John Milton
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-Ludwig von Mises
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There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
-Wilson Mizner
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A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
-Mohammed
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
-Moli
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'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
-Mary Wortley Montagu
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The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
-Alfred A. Montapert
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
-Charles Montesquieu
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
-Hannah More
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Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.
-William Morris
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The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.
-Mother Theresa
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Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
-Mother Theresa
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There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
-Mother Theresa
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
-John L. Motley
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No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.
-Hector Hugh Munro
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I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.
-Ogden Nash
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For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
-Earl Nightingale
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Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
-Sean O'Casey
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I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
-Barack Obama
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Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
-Robert Orben
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Economically, no doubt, there are only two classes, the rich and the poor, but socially there is a whole hierarchy of classes, and the manners and traditions learned by each class in childhood are not only very different but--this is the essential point--generally persist from birth to death. 'Hence the anomalous individuals that you find in every class of society. You find writers like Wells and Bennett who have grown immensely rich and have yet preserved intact their lower-middle-class Nonconformist prejudices; you find millionaires who cannot pronounce their aitches; you find petty shopkeepers whose income is far lower than that of the bricklayer and who, nevertheless, consider themselves (and are considered) the bricklayer's social superiors; you find board-school boys ruling Indian provinces and public-school men touting vacuum cleaners. If social stratification corresponded precisely to economic stratification, the public-school man would assume a cockney accent the day his income dropped below L200 a year. But does he? On the contrary, he immediately becomes twenty times more Public School than before. He clings to the Old School Tie as to a life-line. And even the aitchless millionaire, though sometimes he goes to an elocutionist and leams a B.B.C. accent, seldom succeeds in disguising himself as completely as he would like to. It is in fact very difficult to escape, culturally, from the class into which you have been born.
-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (ch. 13)
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Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.
-Ovid
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I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
-Dorothy Parker
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One of the keys to wealth is to understand why & how the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater than the distance from 3 million to 5 million.
-Eric Parslow
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
-Cesare Pavese
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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
-Charles Peguy
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Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?
-Laurence J. Peter
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-J. Petit-Senn
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
-Pablo Picasso
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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.
-Plato
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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
-Plato
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Where there are friends there is wealth.
-Plautus
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
-Alexander Pope
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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
-Ayn Rand
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The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
-Antoine Rivarol
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
-John D. Rockefeller
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Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.
-Frances Rodman
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Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.
-Jim Rohn
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Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
-John Ruskin
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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.
-John Ruskin
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
-Yves Saint-Laurent
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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
-Colonel Harland Sanders
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
-William Shakespeare
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Not that I have the power to clutch my hand
When his fair angels would salute by palm,
But for my hand, as unattempted yet,
Like a poor beggar, raileth on the rich.
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail
And say there is no sin but to be rich;
And being rich, my virtue then shall be
To say there is no vice but beggary.
-William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John - (Bastard at II, i)
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What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
-George Bernard Shaw
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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
-George Bernard Shaw
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About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
-Henry Wheeler Shaw
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The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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You can never be too rich or too thin.
-Wallis Simpson
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With the great part of rich people, the chief employment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
-Adam Smith
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The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.... To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
-Logan Pearsall Smith, In the World, Afterthoughts
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
-Socrates
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
-Socrates
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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
-Socrates
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In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything!
-Sodo
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Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man.
-Solomon
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
-Solon
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Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
-Stephen Swid
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
-Jonathan Swift
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He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
-Jeremy Taylor
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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
-Henry David Thoreau
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The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
-Henry David Thoreau
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
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This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.
-Ralph Waldo Trine
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I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.
-Donald Trump
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A fool and his money are soon parted.
-Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
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Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for; He who has God Finds he lacks nothing;
-Source Unknown
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If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
-Source Unknown
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A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
-Source Unknown
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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.
-Source Unknown
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How much money is enough?
-Source Unknown
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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
-Source Unknown
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Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
-Source Unknown
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Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.
-Source Unknown
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To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
-Raoul Vaneigem
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Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
-R. Venning
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
-Gore Vidal
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To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetous
-H. L. Wayland
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It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
-Vivienne Westwood
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Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.
-John Wicker
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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
-Oscar Wilde
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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
-Oscar Wilde
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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
-Oscar Wilde
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
-Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
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He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
-W. Wirt
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
-Andrew Young
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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
-Andrew Young
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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
-Andrew Young
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Books about Wealth
