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Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.
He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.
[Lat., Dives fieri qui vult
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He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.
[Lat., Dives fieri qui vult
Et cito vult fieri.]
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.]
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
And to hie him home, at evening's close,
To sweet repast, and calm repose.
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And to hie him home, at evening's close,
To sweet repast, and calm repose.
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From toil we wins his spirits light,
From busy day the peaceful night;
Rich, from the very want of wealth,
In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.
Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with read more
Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.