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    Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

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Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.

Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.

by Alexander Pope Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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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.

by Henry George Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great
fortune; to acquire it is difficult read more

It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great
fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
[Lat., Facile est momento quo quis velit, cedere possessione
magnae fortunae; facere et parare eam, difficile atque arduum
est.]

by Titus Livy Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

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There are, while human miseries abound,
A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,
Without one fool or read more

There are, while human miseries abound,
A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,
Without one fool or flatterer at your board,
Without one hour of sickness or disgust.

by John Armstrong Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are
disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and read more

Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are
disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who
shall gather them.

by Bible Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large
enough to cover.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large
enough to cover.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.

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Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

by Henry David Thoreau Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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