"Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting."
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"How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant"
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"Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth."
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"What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it."
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"The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources."
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"No one should be rich except those who understand it."
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"I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE."
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"That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin"
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"Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth."
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"Inequalities of wealth, unjustly established, have assuredly injured the nation in which they exist during their establishment; and, unjustly directed, they injure it yet more during their existence. But inequalities of wealth justly established, benefit the nation in the course of their establishment; and, nobly used, aid it yet more by their existence."
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"Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious."
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"I say no wealth is worth my life."
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"Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give."
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"There is a wealth of knowledge to be understood from others' work, don't get me wrong, and when I do stumble upon others' work, it's not lost on me."
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"We are all of us richer than we think we are."
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"Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful."
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