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Riches Quotes by Mark Twain
- The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
- No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.
- I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
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- Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. — Francis Bacon
- Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but… — Gamaliel Bailey
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- A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. — Henry Ward Beecher
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- As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. — Jean de la Bruyere
- Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. — Edmund Burke
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