Quote by Francis Bacon
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. - Francis Baco

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. – Francis Bacon

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Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. – Francis Bacon

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The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger. – Sholom Aleichem

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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way. – Proverb

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The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for, not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in His infinite wisdom has given control of the property interests of the country. – George Baer

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The rich man has his motor car,
His country and his town estate
He smokes a fifty-cent cigar
And jeers at fate.
Yet though my lamp burn low and dim,
Though I must slave for livelihood,
Think you that I would change with him?
You bet I would! – Franklin Pierce Adams

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