#rich men

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

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Few rich men own their property; their property owns them. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. ↗

— Anita Brookner

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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate. ↗

— Herodotus

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