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Rich Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
- Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
- Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient
- Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when…
- Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.
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