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Embarrassment of riches.
[Fr., Embarras des richesse.]
Embarrassment of riches.
[Fr., Embarras des richesse.]
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above
his neighbors because he read more
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above
his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he
to a gold mine!
Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends.
Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends.
Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It
was verily prettily said that we read more
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It
was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of
fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health,
And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth.
Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health,
And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth.
