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Riches Quotes (page 52)

Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket... Ambrose Bierce
You do admit that, if wealth was divided up equally, in a few years there would be rich and poor again just the same. The hard-working man would come to the top, the wastrel sink to the bottom.- Every one admits that.- Your Socialists don't.- My Socialists do. Yours mayn't; but I strongly suspect yours of being not Socialists, but ninepins, which you have constructed for your own amusement. I can't imagine any living creature who would bowl over quite so easily. E. M. Forster
Pearl S. Buck quote: "The rich are always afraid."
The rich are always afraid. Pearl S. Buck
Jeffrey Sachs quote: "History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for..."
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything. Jeffrey Sachs
Colleen McCullough quote: "We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or..."
We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have. Colleen McCullough
And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day. Cormac McCarthy
Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate. Christopher Hitchens
Robert Burton quote: "Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that..."
Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy. Robert Burton
Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargo. Congealed in the dark arteries, Old veins. That hold Glamorgan's blood. The midnight miner in the secret seams, Limb, life, and bread.- Rhondda Valley Mervyn Peake
A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again. Robinson Jeffers
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place. Margaret Mead
..Napoleon once dismissed religion as 'what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.' Meaning, without the fear of God--or literally the hell we might have to pay--the rest of us would just take what we wanted. Mitch Albom
I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone. Edith Wharton
It had come back to him simply that what he had been looking at all summer was a very rich and beautiful world, and that it had not all been made by sharp railroad men and stock-brokers. Henry James

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