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What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

George Bernard Shaw
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Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures. -Oscar Wilde
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Oscar Wilde
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Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.

Chuck Palahniuk
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The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. -John F. Kennedy
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If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Yiddish proverb
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

John F. Kennedy
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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. -Benjamin Franklin
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Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Christopher Columbus
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Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.

William Shakespeare
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Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man. -William Shakespeare
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No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

William Shakespeare
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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty. -Charles Peguy
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Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

William Shakespeare
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It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

William Shakespeare
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Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor. -Horace Mann
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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 Mann
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There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca
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The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. -Ann Landers
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The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

Theodore Roosevelt
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Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. -Benjamin Franklin
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Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.

English Proverb
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It is not what men eat but what they digest that makes them strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; not what we preach but what we practice that makes us Christians.

Sir Francis Bacon
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The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all. -G. K. Chesterton
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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

G. K. Chesterton
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Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is. -Jean Anouilh
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