Mark Twain Quotes About Prosperity

• Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Prosperity, Breeders

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.385, Courier Corporation

• Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

  Mark Twain

  Political, Principles, Literature

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.385, Courier Corporation

• Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.

  Mark Twain

  Mean, Men, Ideas

• When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, May, Hills

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.385, Courier Corporation

• When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Father, Personal Opinions

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, Sept. 1937. The attribution to Twain is obviously spurious because Twain's father died when the future writer was eleven years old.

• When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

  Mark Twain

  Failure, Fall, Men

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

  Mark Twain

  Desire, Riches, Poverty

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.157, Penguin

• I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

  Mark Twain

  Prosperity, Objects

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