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“Soon those three udders of modern nations, monopolies, bill discounting, and fraudulent speculation, were swollen with the milk of wealth.” Anatole France, Penguin Island
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish . . . know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of...” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.” Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly
“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.” Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot
“Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt, since riches point to misery and contempt?” William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
“How heavy is the toll of sins and wrongs that wealth, power and prestige exact from man!” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“Wealth is the means—and people are the ends.” John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address
“Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.” Plato, The Republic
“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward
“Better poverty without care, than riches with.” Aesop, Aesop's Fables
“The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy to invade his possessions.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Simple, generous goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Men
“This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.” John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address
“Business is a noble vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving our world. It can be a fruitful source of prosperity for the areas in which it operates, especially if it sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to...” Pope Francis, Laudato si'
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. Dragons may not have much real use for all their wealth, but they know it to an ounce as a rule, especially after long possession; and Smaug was no exception.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults.” William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
“In every ordered State, wealth is a sacred thing: in democracies it is the only sacred thing.” Anatole France, Penguin Island
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address
“Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. . . . Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful—that's what matters to me.” Steve Jobs
“Moreover the wealthy may have pity beyond right on the needy that befriended them when they were in want.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.” Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly
“We have come to a political deification of Mammon.” Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography
“The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator
“There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.” Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
“The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of...” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.” Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
“To prevent the perpetuation of poverty is necessary if the benefits of machine production are to accrue in any degree to those most in need of them; but what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ’cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he’s poor in hisself, there ain’t no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an’ maybe he’s disappointed that...” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“Oh, if the kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go!” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“That is just what rich people are, . . . they snub you and then they think they can make up for everything by a few monkey tricks.” Stendhal, The Red and the Black
“I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
“when the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“Prosperity's the very bond of love, whose fresh complexion and whose heart together affliction alters.” William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
“no man grows rich by kindness.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“She came from the most worthless of all classes—the rich, with a smattering of culture.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality. What woman chooses to live with a dishwasher?” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“The parents of rich kids tended to be more patriotic because they had more to lose if the country went under.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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