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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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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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When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world. ↗

— George Foreman

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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

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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

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A learned man has always riches in himself. ↗

— Phaedrus

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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ↗

— Plato

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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles. ↗

— Plato

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