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• America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, America, People

  KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”

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• Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Humanity, Toil, Extravagance

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

  Euripides

  Character, Gold, Literature

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

  George S. Clason

  Money, Doe, World

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• Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

  Epictetus

  Fathers Day, Teacher, Teaching

  Epictetus (1895*). “Discourses: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

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• It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Happiness, Inspiring

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• But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

  Alexander Pope

  Temptation, Literature, Satan

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1797). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems”, p.266

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• Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Money, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 02, 2016

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• We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Candida (1898) act 1

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• It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Love, Money, Greatest Wealth

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• Ability is a poor man's wealth.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Sports, Men

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.82, B&H Publishing Group

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• I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

  Andrew Young

  Thinking, Mind, Rich

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• It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Mind, Bears

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• It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

  Lucretius

  Greatest Wealth, Soul, Mind

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• Wealth unused might as well not exist.

  Aesop

  Might, Wells

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.64, Pelekanos Books

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• As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Long, People, World

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1920). “The Social Contract: & Discourses”

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• Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

  John Milton

  May, Riches, Soil

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 690 (1667)

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• Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.

  Douglas Adams

  Men, Perfectly Natural, Rich

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.81, Pan Macmillan

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• Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

  Rex Stout

  Admiration, Fortitude, Advantages And Disadvantages

  Rex Stout (2011). “The Red Box”, p.88, Crimeline

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• There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

  Anthony Trollope

  Easy, Matrimony, Respectable

  'Doctor Thorne' (1858) ch. 16

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• The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

  Plato

  Being Happy, Plato, Greatest Wealth

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• From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.

  Thomas Gray

  Peace, Winning, Night

  Thomas Gray, William Mason (1827). “The works of Thomas Gray, with memoirs of his life and writings, by W. Mason”, p.408

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• To attract money, you must focus on wealth.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Focus, Noticing You

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

  Alexander Pope

  Money, People, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.236

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• O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

  William Shakespeare

  Years, Three, Looks

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest”, p.100

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