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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.
 It cannot be repeated too often that the safety of great wealth 
with us lies in obedience to the read more 
 It cannot be repeated too often that the safety of great wealth 
with us lies in obedience to the new version of the Old World 
axiom--Richesse oblige. 
 What riches give us let us then inquire:
 Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire.
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 What riches give us let us then inquire:
 Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire.
  Is this too little? 
 For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now 
obey the alluring influence of riches.
 [Lat., Omnis read more 
 For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now 
obey the alluring influence of riches.
 [Lat., Omnis enim res,
  Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris
   Divitiis parent.] 
 No, he was no such charlatan--
 Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--
  Full of gasconade and bravado,
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 No, he was no such charlatan--
 Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--
  Full of gasconade and bravado,
   But a regular, rich Don Rataplane,
    Santa Claus de la Muscavado,
     Senor Grandissimo Bastinado!
      His was the rental of half Havana
       And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana,
        Rich as he was, could hardly hold
         A candle to light the mines of gold
          Our Cuban owned. 
 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches 
certainly make themselves wings; they fly away read more 
 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches 
certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward 
heaven. 
 Let none admire
 That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
  Deserve the precious bane.  
 Let none admire
 That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
  Deserve the precious bane. 
 Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to 
administer in his lifetime for the good read more 
 Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to 
administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. 
 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.]