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Get rich or die tryin’.

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Adam Smith

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

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Helen Keller

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

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Helen Keller

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.

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Adam Smith

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

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Adam Smith

The rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

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Adam Smith

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

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Adam Smith

Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question.

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Adam Smith

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

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