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• Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.

  Mario Andretti

  Men, Fool, Rich

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• Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Nature, Character, Men

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• What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Lying, Men

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.27

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• The rich man and his daughter are soon parted.

  Kin Hubbard

  Daughter, Women, Rich

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• The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Men, Order, Castles

  'All Things Bright and Beautiful" (hymn) (1848)

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• The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : 'Here is your home country.'

  Nizar Qabbani

  Country, Home, Eye

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• Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Wise, Kings, Simple

  Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1850). “The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.129

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• The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

  Chanakya

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Men

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• I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Money, Writing, Adventure

  Sherwood Anderson (1969). “Sherwood Anderson's memoirs: a critical edition”

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• There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children

  Adrian Rogers

  Children, Men, Heaven

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• It is not the rich man you should properly call happy,
  but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods,
  to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death,
  and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

  Horace

  Men, Blessing, Poverty

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• Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Strong, Men, Weakness

  Charles Spurgeon (2001). “Morning & Evening”, Whitaker House

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• Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

  Richard Miller

  Uncles, Men, Funeral

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• A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Too Much, Rich

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fashion, Men, Temptation

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.38

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• A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Men, Answers, Rich

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• Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Money, Men, Thinking

  Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

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• The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.

  Saadi

  Home, Men, Wealth

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• Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

  Margot Asquith

  Beautiful, Women, Home

  Margot Asquith (1963). “Autobiography”

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• Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.

  Pindar

  Death, Moving, Men

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• Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?

  Jethro Tull

  Men, Hands, Thieves

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• A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Men, Rich, Generous

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

  Plautus

  Men, Kind, Wealth

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 864-67, Aulularia, II. 2. 30, 1922.

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• The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reflection, Men, House

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

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• The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.

  James Russell Lowell

  Son, Men, White

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.17

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