"I wish to become rich, so that..." - Quote by Mark Twain
I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.
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“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
“So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.”
“...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.”
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“It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.”
“Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.”
“LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?”