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Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
[Lat., Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique.]
Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
[Lat., Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique.]
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their
thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God
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Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their
thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God
Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill,
To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.
For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill,
To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.
All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
An 'tis no better reckoned but of these
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All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
An 'tis no better reckoned but of these
Who worship dirty gods.
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to
t'other world?
If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to
t'other world?
Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends.
Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends.