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"There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue." »Tom Robbins
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"He who has wealth has friends; he who has wealth has relations; he who has wealth is a hero among the people; he who has wealth is even a sage." »The Hitopadesa
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"It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired." »Venezuelan Proverb
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"Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"When the man of a naturally good propensity has much wealth it injures his advancement in wisdom; when a worthless man has much wealth it increases his faults." »Chinese
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"Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should." »Bertrand Russell
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"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward." »John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
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"If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper." »Francis Quarles
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"We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what is called socialism." »Richard T. Ely
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"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in." »Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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"Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue." »Socrates
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"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains." »Helen Gahagan Douglas
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"Knowledge produces mildness of speech; mildness of speech, a good character; a good character, wealth; wealth, if virtuous actions attend it, happiness." »The Hitopadesa
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"Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health." »Author Unknown
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"Are you looking for a wealth in life? Fool! Life is the wealth itself!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"There is no wealth but life." »John Ruskin
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"wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it." »Benjamin Franklin
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"The first wealth is health." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me." »Sara Teasdale
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"All wealth is the product of labor." »John Locke
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"Wisdom outweighs any wealth." »Sophocles
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"Children are a poor man's wealth." »Danish proverb
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"wealth is the product of man's capacity to think." »Ayn Rand
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"All true wealth is biological." »Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory
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"A man can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for a while. But he will not go on without hope." »C. Neil Strait
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"He does not possess wealth it possesses him." »Benjamin Franklin
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"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody." »Barack Obama
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