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Letter "R" » rich
«The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.»
«The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.»
«Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
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About:
Passion,
Wisdom
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Keywords:
content,
governs,
learns,
passions,
powerful,
rich
«You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty; but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy»
«The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
absolutely,
institution,
less,
rich,
rich man,
sell out,
sold,
speaking,
such institutions,
The Less,
virtue
«Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
charmed,
charming,
fascinate,
fascinates,
fascinating,
fellow,
income,
incomes,
one use,
permanent,
poor,
practical,
privilege,
profession,
prosaic,
rich,
romance,
romances,
romancing,
There is no,
The Fellows,
the poor,
unemployed,
use,
wealthier,
wealthiest,
wealthy
«Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(
Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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About:
Imagination
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Keywords:
beautiful,
elegant,
graceful,
handsome,
handsomer,
handsomest,
imagination,
not yet,
pretty,
Pretty Things,
rich,
speak,
yet
«The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.»
Author: Spanish Proverb
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Keywords:
foolish,
in passing,
I Pass,
ones,
pass,
passes out,
pass out,
rich,
rich man,
sayings,
wise