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- In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it… — Anne Bronte
- Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. — Andrew Carnegie
- The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the… — Chanakya
- It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete… — Aristotle
- It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor… — John Maynard Keynes
- Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet… — Benjamin Franklin
- Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed… — Herman Melville
- The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it… — George Davis Herron
- We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What… — Seneca the Younger
- For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to… — Plato