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... most Southerners of my parents’ era were raised to feel that it wasn’t respectable to be... More
... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages... More
... the aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth. More
... the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God’s will, but as human beings... More
... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind! More
...I’m not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but what’s the difference?... More
...those to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that they lack nothing of all that... More
1st Murderer. Where’s thy conscience now?...
2nd Murderer. I’ll not meddle with it. It... More
A city on whom plenty held full hand,
For riches strewed herself even in her... More
A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in... More
A full stomach and warm clothing leave one free for lustful thoughts. More
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants....... More
A hair plucked from a rich man is thicker than a poor man’s waist. More
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. More
A queen driven from her throne, naked, in winter snows, like Elizabeth of Hungary, suffers more... More
A rich man was never insulted in his life: but this man must be stung. A rich man was never in... More
A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues,... More
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The... More
After a big ship has rotted away, there still remain three thousand nails. More
Ah! if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches! More
All my possessions for a moment of time. More
Among families, so rich as to be above labour, the daughters are hurried through the routine of... More
Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting
In diluted gold bars across the boulevard... More
As on the highroad he who walks lightest walks with most ease, so on the journey of
life more... More
But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property, out of new respect for his nature.... More
But how do the poor minority fare? Perhaps it will be found that just in proportion as some have... More
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and... More
But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not making poor. More
By right or wrong,
Lands and goods go to the strong.
Property will brutely draw
Still... More
Cankered heaps of strange-achievèd gold. More
Comfort and convenience possess a magical power; little by little they suck in even people with... More
Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that... More
Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the... More
Diligence is the basis of wealth, and thrift the source of riches. More
Do not say to yourself, “My power and the might of my own hand have gotten me this wealth.”... More
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships... More
Finishing schools in the fifties were a good place to store girls for a few years before marrying... More
For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake... More
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of... More
From behind the red gates comes the stink of wine and meat, while along the road sides lie the... More
Gold and iron are good
To buy iron and gold. More
Great riches come from heaven; small riches come from diligence. More
Having money is just the best thing in the world. More
He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are... More
He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of... More
He that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me... More
Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of... More
Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from... More
How can the physique be braced if no fresh breath from the outer world is suffered to permeate... More
How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! More
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. More
I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor. More
I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our [sic] pockets. More
I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in. More
I had a feeling that out there, there were very poor people who didn’t have enough to eat. But... More
I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to those who... More
I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership.... I mean that subtle... More
I think there’s a point at which money, influence, and power become so blinding that people... More
I understand that only the rich can be members of Dr. C---’s church. The Lord Christ, also, is... More
I was a sophomore in college when everything went down the drain. I never thought it would... More
I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love... More
If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn’t be... More
If I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune would not suffer me: she drops booties in my mouth. More
If Paris lived now, and preferred beauty to power and riches, it would not be called his... More
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. More
If the accumulated wealth of the past generations is thus tainted,—no matter how much of it is... More
If the Almighty had intended for you to be rich, he’d have taken care of that a long time ago.... More
If thou art rich, thou’rt poor,
For like an ass, whose back with ingots bows,
Thou... More
If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man. More
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men... More
Ill fares the land, to hast’ning ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. More
In the early forties and fifties almost everybody “had about enough to live on,” and young... More
In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary... More
It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put... More
It is ... pathetic to observe the complete lack of imagination on the part of certain employers... More
It is better to pay court to a queen ... than to worship, as we too often do, some unworthy... More
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter... More
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an... More
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. More
It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask... More
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles,... More
I’ll come up the steps to the house and the gardener will be clipping away at the hedges and... More
I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Believe me, honey, rich is better. More
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where... More
Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane. More
Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from... More
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate. More
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away. More
Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp’s acute... More
Maud Muller looked and sighed: “Ah me!
That I the Judge’s bride might be!

“He... More
Money clarifies one’s speech greatly, while no one listens to the poor. More
Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked. More
Money makes people brash; if they do not speak well, they just shout. More
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric. More
More luck to honest poverty,
It claims respect, and a’ that;
But honest wealth’s a... More
My mind to me a kingdom is;
Such present joys therein I find
That it excels all other... More
No man, however benevolent, liberal, and wise, can use a large fortune so that it will do half as... More
No one need go into alleys to hunt up wretchedness; they can find it in perfection among the rich... More
Nobody is saying that these people do not ultimately cease to be. And
Sometimes their... More
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth. More

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