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• A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wife, House, Littles

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Use, Littles, Too Much

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• The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

  Saint Augustine

  Night, Treasure, Toil

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 523, 1895.

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• How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!

  Thomas Brooks

  Soul, Gowns, Wealth

  Thomas Brooks, Jay Patrick Green, Sr. (2000). “A Mute Christian Under the Rod & Apples of Gold”, p.166, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.

  Confucius

  Pigs, Fool, Fats

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• Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

  Horace

  Honor, Slave, Virtue

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• An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Heart, Devotion, Fortune

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.21

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• Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

  Francis Bacon

  Hands, Mistress, Poor

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• Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Literature, Charm, Distinction

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.61, e-artnow

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• Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

  Charles Lamb

  Life, Success, Giving

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon TALFOURD (1849). “The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. By T. N. Talfourd”, p.253

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• The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

  Laurence Sterne

  Motivational, Education, Business

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.65

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• Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

  John Milton

  May, Soil, Wealth

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 690 (1667)

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• My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

  Joseph Brotherton

  Happiness, Attitude, Simple

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• And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Ignorance, Wealth

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 51

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

  George MacDonald

  Power, Contentment, Want

  George MacDonald (1884). “Donal Grant”, p.3, CCEL

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• The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.

  Ernie Banks

  Baseball, Playing Games, Games

  Sporting News, May 12, 1970.

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• A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

  Solomon

  Character, Names, Chosen

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• Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

  Austin O'Malley

  Pride, Characteristics

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• Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Opinion, Glory, Pleasure

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• If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Art, Journey

  William Shakespeare, Charles Knight (1843). “The Complete Works of W. Shakspere: Illustrated with Many Valuable Literary Notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Drake, Chalmers, Coleridge, Lamb, Schlegel, Hazlitt, Ch. Knight, and Other Distinguished Commentators with Large Introductory Notices Prefixed to Each Play ...”

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  Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

  Christopher Columbus

  Men, Rich, Busier

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• Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish.

  Francis Quarles

  Increase, Estates, Diminish

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.67

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• Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.

  Solon

  Satiety

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• He who recognizes no higher logic than that of the shilling may become a very rich man, and yet remain all the while an exceedingly poor creature; for riches are no proof whatever of moral worth, and their glitter often serves only to draw attention to the worthlessness of their possessor, as the glow-worm's light reveals the grub.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Light, Attention

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.341

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• In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

  Joseph Joubert

  Ambition, Greed, Matter

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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