"The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all."
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"All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it."
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"Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich."
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"I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood."
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"History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated."
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"The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue."
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"It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery."
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"Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything."
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"They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating property. The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; and it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it."
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"I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor."
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"A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded."
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"One thing I know about the rich, being rich, is that you can take money from me and tomorrow, I'm still going to be rich."
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"It's easy to get laid when you're rich and famous. When you're broke and unknown, it takes skill."
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"Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate."
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"We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed."
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"I like them old and rich."
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"No one should be rich except those who understand it."
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"For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]"
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"The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms."
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"In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!"
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