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• "Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.]"
  By: translated by John Ozell, title of a French comedy played at the Haymarket, London, Oct. 9, 1738,
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• "Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. [Lat., Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malorum.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses (I, 140)
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• "The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Fasti (I, 211)
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• "The million covet wealth, but how few dream of its perils?"
  By: John Neal
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• "I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice."
  By: Edward Moore, The Gamester (act II, sc. 2)
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• "Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane."
  By: John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 690)
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• "Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men."
  By: John Stuart Mill
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• "But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties."
  By: Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell), Reveries of a Bachelor--Over his Cigar (III)
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• "Those who we strive to benefit Dear to our hearts soon grow to be; I love my Rich, and I admit That they are very good to me. Succor the poor, my sisters,--I While heaven shall still vouchsafe me health Will strive to share and mollify The trials of abounding wealth."
  By: Edward Sandford Martin, A Little Brother of the Rich
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• "The little sister of the Poor . . . . The Poor, and their concerns, she has Monopolized, because of which It falls to me to labor as A Little Brother of the Rich."
  By: Edward Sandford Martin, A Little Brother of the Rich
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• "You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and powerful. Who can determine what would be his future conduct? Tell me, if you were to become a lion, what sort of a lion would you be?"
  By: Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams (bk. XII, ep. 92)
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• "Infinite riches in a little room."
  By: Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta (act I, sc. 1)
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• "Of all pure things, purity in the acquisition of riches is the best. He who preserves purity in becoming rich is really pure, not he who is purified by water."
  By: Manu (or Menu)
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• "The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor."
  By: Sir James Mackintosh
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• "The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work."
  By: George MacDonald
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• "Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good."
  By: Martin Luther, Colloquies (p. 90), (ed. 1652)
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