Rich Quotes
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Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
William Cowper
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I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you.
Adele
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
Oscar Wilde
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Oscar Wilde
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
Adam McKay
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Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
Adam Davidson
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My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
Oscar Wilde
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Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.
Sarah Bernhardt
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Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
Jhumpa Lahiri
