First place Quote by Charles Kingsley

“But all I could make use of was all that was valuable. I had enough to eat and to supply my wants, and what…

— Daniel Defoe

“Only a short time ago hed envied these brightly plumed birds[ladies in pastel dresses]. They possessed everything money could buy and most had the…

— Cara Lynn James

“But then we did not think ever of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. We thought we were superior people and other…

— Ernest Hemingway

“All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they…

— Anonymous

“Women were valued highly in those days – not as highly as the least of men, of course, but well above the worth of…

— Wendy Bertsch

“men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of the desire for wisdom, which is the sustenance and truly dependable wealth…

— Walter Isaacson

“I cannot believe that our factory system is the best mode by which men may get clothing. The condition of the operatives is becoming…

— Henry David Thoreau

“They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable,…

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

“We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from…

— Edmund Morris

“The Utopians wonder how any man should be so much taken with the glaring doubtful lustre of a jewel or a stone, that can…

— Thomas More

“Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“For what was civilization but the intellect’s ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely…

— Amor Towles