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No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de la Muscavado, Senor Grandissimo Bastinado! His was the rental of half Havana And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana, Rich as he was, could hardly hold A candle to light the mines of gold Our Cuban owned.

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

No good man ever became suddenly rich.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine!

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.

I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better.

Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, The mind annihilates, and calls for more.

Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

A learned man has always wealth in himself.

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

I have no riches but my thoughts Yet these are wealth enough for me.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.