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Quotes about riches
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The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger. (Cooper Jackie)
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. (Cooper Jackie)
There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work. (Cooper Jackie)
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. (Cooper Jackie)
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. (Cooper Jackie)
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. (Cooper Jackie)
Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream. (Cooper Jackie)
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. (Cooper Jackie)
This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community --the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves. (Cooper Jackie)
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. (Cooper Jackie)
Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it. (Cooper Jackie)
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men. (Cooper Jackie)
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. (Cooper Jackie)
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different. (Cooper Jackie)
Real riches are the riches possessed inside. (Cooper Jackie)
He who multiplies riches, multiplies cares. (Cooper Jackie)
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. (Cooper Jackie)
Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites. (Cooper Jackie)
Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied. (Cooper Jackie)
The jests of the rich are ever successful. (Cooper Jackie)
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. (Cooper Jackie)
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss. (Cooper Jackie)
The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, The very rich are different from you and me. And how someone had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money. (Cooper Jackie)
Think and grow rich. (Cooper Jackie)
It is better to live rich, than to die rich. (Cooper Jackie)
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