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I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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People can be free from suffering if people give up selfish desires for power,wealth,and pleasure. ↗

— Buddhist Belief

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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual…O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest? ↗

— Rumi

#quest #rumi #wealth

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#earnings #economics #income #socialism #wealth

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. ↗

— Henry Adams

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The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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