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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
 Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home
 Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . read more 
 Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home
 Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
  To see how plump my bags are and my barns. 
 The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal 
amount of wealth, but in which read more 
 The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal 
amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his 
contribution to the general stock. 
 Embarrassment of riches.
 [Fr., Embarras des richesse.]  
 Embarrassment of riches.
 [Fr., Embarras des richesse.] 
 And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and 
sold,
 The wealth of read more 
 And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and 
sold,
 The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold. 
 The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It 
was verily prettily said that we read more 
 The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It 
was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of 
fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it. 
 I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
 [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus read more 
 I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
 [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est dives pauperi.] 
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.