Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.
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Alexander Pushkin
Darling, if I think of all I miss now, I will go crazy. I should not think of that. I only want to think of all that I still have, and then I am rich. Your spirit is always around me, in your diary, our...
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Diet Eman
A little house well filled a little land well tilled and a little wife well willed are great riches.
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Anonymous
Ah if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.
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Thomas Fuller
More Quotes By Logan Pearsall Smith
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
One late winter afternoon in Oxford Street, amid the noise of vehicles and voices that filled that dusky thoroughfare, as I was borne onward with the crowd past the great electric-lighted shops, a holy Indifference filled my thoughts. Illusion had faded from me; I was...
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmaresif there seemed any danger of their coming true!
