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Rich Quotes by Edward Abbey
- If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate…
- The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.
- The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
- Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
- Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
- The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
- Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
- One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role…
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