Quote by Oscar Wilde
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. – Oscar Wilde

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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. – Oscar Wilde

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There is luxury in self-reproach…. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. – Oscar Wilde

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To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, thats a bonus, and if you dont, you still wont hate going to work. – Jeff Foxworthy

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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to. – Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727

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The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team. – Hayden Fry

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