To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
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Her voice is full of money.
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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He who is contented is rich.
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Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream --and yet God blesses it!
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What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
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No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.
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Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
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