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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. ↗

— Arthur Helps

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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. ↗

— David Hume

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Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches. ↗

— David Hume

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All things being equal, why not be married to a rich man? (Somewhere, Hannah thinks, there must be a needlepoint pillow asking this very question in a cleverer way.) ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong. ↗

— Antiphanes

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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. ↗

— Fanny Burney

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The hand has the richest articulation of space. ↗