"Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity."
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"The rich are the scum of the earth in every country."
"The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows."
"One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions."
"Giving is the business of the rich."
"Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money."
"I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food."
"Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return."
"I don't believe that there is fair enough understanding of either our status as women or the total context of our lives, which is very rich and multi-faceted."
"Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness."
"I don't invest in rich kids' businesses."
"The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich."
"The only people who really worry about money are the very poor and the very rich."
"If these rich women from 5th Avenue spend a fortune on cashmere sweaters, they will come to my store to buy gummy bears."
"The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell."
"The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser."
"Large enterprises make the few rich, but the majority prosper only through the carefulness and detail of thrift."
"In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy. In always wanting perfection, you become angry. In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy."
"A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists."
"His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted."