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I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Second Inaugural Address (1937)
- America
When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968“Beyond Vietnam”, Riverside Church, New York (4 April 1967)
- Race
- War & Peace
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Love
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- God
Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene III, spoken by PoloniusIn context
- Advice
- Friendship
People always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them
Jane Austen1775–1817Sense and Sensibility (1811), Chapter IIIn context
- Comedy
A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid! the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XIn context
- Women
But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter IIn context
- Marriage
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter XXIIIn context
- Happiness
“Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!”
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Treasure Island (1883), Part Two: The Sea-cook, Chapter XIn context
- Animals
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Charles Dickens1812–1870David Copperfield (1850), Chapter 12In context
- Happiness
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book II: Old and Young, Chapter XVIIIn context
- Charity
There is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter IIn context
- Work
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter IXIn context
- Virtue
Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome superabundance of that sort of time which is not money.
Mark Twain1835–1910The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Chapter XXVIn context
- Comedy
- Time