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Letter "R" » rich man
«Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.»
«The difference between a rich man and a poor man, is this - the former eats hen when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it»
«The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor»
«The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.»
«The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.»
«The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.»
«The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Poverty
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poverty-stricken, poverty, rich man, stricken, teeth, toothache, toothaches
«The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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absolutely, institution, less, rich, rich man, sell out, sold, speaking, such institutions, The Less, virtue
«The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.»
Author: Spanish Proverb
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foolish, in passing, I Pass, ones, pass, passes out, pass out, rich, rich man, sayings, wise
«Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns,Amid the rustle of his planted hills,Life overflows without ambitious pains;And rains down life until the basin spills,And mounts more dizzy high the more it rainsAs though to choose whatever shape it wills. . . .»
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