Mark Twain Quotes About Wealth
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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
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To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.
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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
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The lack of money is the root of all evil.
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To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.
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Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
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There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
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I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.
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Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity-- Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy and wealth and wise. As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.
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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
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The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.
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How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant
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