"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity."
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"No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger."
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"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn."
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"Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue."
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"Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied."
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"The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks."
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"I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of."
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"Another bad thing about "prosperity" is that you can't jingle any money without being under suspicion"
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"There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character."
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"Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness."
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"Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity."
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"Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity."
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"Prosperity's the very bond of love."
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"Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it."
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"Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere"
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"Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people."
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"Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging."
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"A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us."
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"We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time."
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"Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue."
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