"Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else."
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"The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work."
"So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy."
"The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question."
"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear"
"If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more."
"Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for"
"Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality."
"No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue."
"I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it."
"Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people."
"We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation."
"It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled."
"It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.""
"The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity."
"Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life."
"... in the present State of America, our welfare and prosperity depend upon the cultivation of our lands and turning the produce of them to the best advantage."
"If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue."
"Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity."
"Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]"