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The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
Of evils current upon earth The worst is money. Money ’tis that sacks Cities, and drives men forth from hearth and home; Warps and seduces native innocence, And breeds a habit of dishonesty.
Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man’s a man for a’ that.
Is this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery Fed with cold and usurous hand?
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
“We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantès’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.”
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
As long as there is any property, and while money is the standard of all other things, I cannot think that a nation can be governed either justly or happily
I can have no other notion of all the other governments that I see or know, than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who, on pretence of managing the public, only pursue their private ends
Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
’Tis written, gifts persuade The gods in heaven; and gold is stronger made Than words innumerable to bend men’s ways.
A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn’t spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.
