Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Wealth
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And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.
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And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?
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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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