Quotes with wealth

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  • Benjamin Disraeli Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Russell Green The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
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  • John Maynard Keynes The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Mark Twain The Bible has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The first wealth is health.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sallust The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Bill Murray The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Lucretius The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments
    The Sabbath (1951) p. 6
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Bruno Rossi The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • John Heywood The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
    John Heywood
    English writer, playwright and poet (1497 - 1580)
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  • Alfred A. Montapert 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
    American writer
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  • Bill Dedman The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • John D. Rockefeller The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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