Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
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There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.
No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
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