#riches

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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Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it. ↗

— Norman Granz

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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money. ↗

— Robert Collier

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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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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. ↗