#riches

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 lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#could #lurking #rewarding #richest #simplified

It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don't know where to look, and that's what I consider self-indulgent. ↗

— John Dykstra

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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. ↗

— John Locke

#most #nothing #ostentation #part #riches

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power. ↗

— George MacDonald

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He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#because #exalted #fool #gold #his

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart? ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#consciousness #head #heart #hearts #home

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#come #i #lie #long #long way

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#ads #any #archaeologists #day #discover

Riches cover a multitude of woes. ↗

— Menander

#multitude #riches #woes