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A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.


William Shenstone

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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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CAROL COVIN A poor man but with a rich idea,is nothing but a rich man.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE One can remain eternally young if, each day, one grows rich by marvelous moments.
ROMY SCHNEIDER The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
W. C. FIELDS The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.
AMIT KALANTRI Your keeping the rich rich and the poor poor,
BRAD LITTLE The mind sets of the rich & poor;While the rich think of how to benefit others by serving,the poor o...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The poor makes the rich & the rich makes the poor.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
MANMOHAN SINGH How is a poor man a lot like a rich man? They both have an iPhone.
ANONYMOUS A poor mind in a rich country makes one a poor person & a poor mind in a poor country makes one a po...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The poor devalue money by lavishing it,but the rich re-value money by investing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A rich man plans for tomorrow ,a poor man dreams about tomorrow.
KOWSALAPATHY Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.
COLONEL HARLAN SANDERS It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.
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SAADI The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are...
SA'DI A rich mans dream comes true only through a poor man.
KOWSALAPATHY My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
ABU BAKR The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
WILLIAM TEMPLE The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor
WILLIAM TEMPLE SR. I'm a rich man, but I don't want to be a miser.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Solution is not really in making poor a rich. But in making rich a poor (justly and constructively)
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LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE The rich believe in the ethos ''service to humanity'' & this has procured them riches,but the poor b...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
ALEXANDER POPE History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.
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THOMAS MALTHUS The rich & the poor have got same 24hrs, the rich treasure theirs, while the poor untreasure theirs
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I will rather b a poor brave man than being a rich coward
PRINCE HOPKINS AMACHREE Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The rich man thinks about the future the poor man thinks about today.
VIKRANT PARSAI If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.
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DOUGLAS CASEY Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.
GARY HOPKINS Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.
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MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beaut...
CHANAKYA The rich are rich in beliefs,but the poor are rich with unbelief.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) In this life let us learn to appreciate both the poor & the rich,because the poor today can become t...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Think rich, look poor.
ANDY WARHOL Rich dad, poor zombie.
JESSE PETERSEN The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receivi...
SANTOSH KALWAR I don't think a politician can serve the nation being rich,because a rich man doesn't know the heart...
JOSEPH BOAZ A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA A person who is physically poor but mentally rich is far greater than a person who is mentally poor ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better.
JEREMY TAYLOR I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.
SOPHIE TUCKER But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE Electricity produced in the name of the poor is consumed by the rich with endless appetites,
ARUNDHATI ROY But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; But riches fineless is as poor as winter To him tha...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Can someone explain too me why Poor people act like Rich people and Rich people act like their Poor?
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER I don’t want to become a rich man but a poor man with a lot of money.
VIKRANT PARSAI I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about...
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JAMES ALTUCHER The rich depend on thinking power to be rich,while the poor also depend on thinking power to become ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
GREGORY NUNN A poor man who marries a rich woman is not his wife, but a ruler.
VIKRANT PARSAI rich nation made temporarily poor.
AYAD ALLAWI I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.
BESSIE SMITH Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; but riches fineless is as poor as winter to him that ever...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
EVITA PERON When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
EVITA PERóN The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.
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LUCY LARCOM While the poor prefer to be rich overnight,the rich prefer to be rich over time.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better.
MAE WEST It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
UNKNOWN Do not run into debt with a rich man, or promise anything to a poor one.
VIKRANT PARSAI In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
ADAM DAVIDSON Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.
AMIT KALANTRI The practice of humility begins by regarding the very fact that all men are equal,rich or poor.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor peop...
MARCO RUBIO No matter how rich a person may be, he is poor to somebody & no matter how poor a person may be, he ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

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And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfo...
WILLIAM WYLER Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images t...
WILLIAM LAUD The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
WILLIAM BLIGH I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mou...
WILLIAM FAULKNER When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand...
WILLIAM CAVENDISH Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY