Why Worldly Riches are like Nuts

Image by ChrisMRichards via FlickrThe rich never feel so good as when they are speaking of their possessions as responsibilities. – Robert Lynd




For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca



The rich are the real outcasts of society, and special missions should be organized for them. – Norman Macleod

Keep company with the very rich and you’ll end up picking up the check. – Stanley Walker

To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. – Logan Pearsall Smith

Worldly riches are like nuts; many clothes are torn in getting them, many a tooth broke in cracking them, but never a belly filled with eating them. – Ralph Venning

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