"Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy."
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"The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them."
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"The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty."
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"Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches."
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"A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset."
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"Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality."
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"We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit."
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"Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards"
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"I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing smething else."
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"For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed and gratefully appreciated, they must be interrupted so the person can see that not having them is not as good as having them."
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"We can tell that a good name is better than riches by those who prefer the riches."
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"Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow."
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"Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable."
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"Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws."
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"Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability."
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"Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior."
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