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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuni...

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Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow, and not to hope to buy one...

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Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and conceal; not they who, the greater propri...

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That law of nature whereby everything climbs to higher platforms, and bodily vigor becomes mental an...

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The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride er...

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Money is representative, and follows the nature and fortunes of the owner...The farmer is covetous o...

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Conduct of Life - Ralph Waldo Emerson (With Notes)(Biography)

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the mi...

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I talk. Jim runs. I tilt stones, Jim grabs the cold junk under the stones and -lickety-split! I clim...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

The wealth of nations is men not silk and cotton and gold.

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on go...

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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from ...

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The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a ...

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The road to wealth is sown with false starts and failures that should in no way discourage the poor ...

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Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, ...

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Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.

The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous w...

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Rutherford B. HayesDiary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; ...

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You are all too rich to be happy, child. For must not each of you be the constitutions of your famil...

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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medic...

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Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

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SapphoA Garland: The Poems and Fragments of Sappho

I have no riches but my thoughts, Yet these are wealth enough for me

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandal...

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Shane ClaiborneRed Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?

I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled li...

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It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — ...

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wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the ind...

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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men...

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a priv...

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Stephen FryThe Fry Chronicles

I think the world’s a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn’t to be the richest guy i...

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If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if y...

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People above the line of bare subsistence in this age, and in all earlier ages, do not use the surpl...

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Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

The most valuable wealth of a man is his knowledge, which cannot be destroyed; all other riches that...

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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them inpractical fashion.

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Theodore RooseveltThe Man in the Arena: Selected Writings

Indeed, it is a sign of marked political weakness in anycommonwealth if the people tend to be carrie...

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Theodore RooseveltThe Man in the Arena: Selected Writings

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we sh...

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Character must show itself in the man'sperformance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty ...

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Theodore RooseveltThe Man in the Arena: Selected Writings

That is why I decline to recognize the meremultimillionaire, the man of mere wealth, as an asset of ...

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Theodore RooseveltThe Man in the Arena: Selected Writings

We should not take part in acting a lie any more than in telling a lie. Weshould not say that men ar...

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Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, right...

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Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice whe...

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Thomas MannDeath in Venice and Other Tales

One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not...

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Or can it be thought that they who heap up an useless mass of wealth, not for any use that it is to ...

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They wonder much to hear that gold which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so mu...

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But what they find most amazing and despicable is the insanity of those who all but worship the rich...

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Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by wh...

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Thomas PikettyCapital in the Twenty-First Century

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that mo...

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Despite widespread misconceptions in the United States today that the institution of slavery was bas...

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I'm old enough to have lived in a country where, if you were willing to work hard, you could have a ...

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Whenever a state or an individual cited 'insufficient funds' as an excuse for neglecting this import...

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What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwea...

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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is...

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Seven thousand of them were indicted and arraigned, and then they entered the maw of the criminal ju...

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The only rich women who ever interested me, the ones who were ever my friends, were adventuresses---...

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The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems no...

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Victor Davis HansonCarnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power

Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

Fortune sides with him who dares.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be ...

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For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like anothe...

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I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of livel...

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The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys ...

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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number...

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And I advise ye to think well, he told her It's better to be a stray dog in this world than a man wi...

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Willa CatherMy Mortal Enemy

I have mental joys and mental health Mental friends and mental wealth I've a wife that I love and ...

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Yes, there's sense in that. But the suddenly rich are on a level with any of us nowadays. Money buys...

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William Dean HowellsThe Rise of Silas Lapham

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mam...

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if admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constan...

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William GodwinEnquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-...

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I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are femin...

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Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

"If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to opinions, you will never b...

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"Leisure without study is death; it is a tomb for the living man."

He laid there realizing how thoroughly he'd removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupi...

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To attempt to increase the wealth of any country, either by introducing or by detaining in it an unn...

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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not b...

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The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as ...

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Adam SmithThe Wealth of Nations

No paint or dye can give so splendid a colour as gilding. The merit of their beauty is greatly enhan...

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Adam SmithThe Wealth of Nations

Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

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Agatha ChristieThe Man in the Brown Suit

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for maki...

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Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot aff...

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