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It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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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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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that. ↗

— Victoria Wood

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Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream. ↗

— James Wolcott

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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

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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

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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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