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Riches Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man…
- One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.
- Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
- A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
- But the greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail (against the government), and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor…
- A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him
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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
- A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. — Richard Burton
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