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Wealth Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.
- The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
- Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
- The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
- Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
- In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.
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