Oscar Wilde: The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich i

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thi — Oscar Wilde

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.

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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. — Oscar Wilde
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes corr — Oscar Wilde
Oh, I love London society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and b — Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. — Oscar Wilde
Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of — Leo Tolstoy
And his money he cannot eat. — Karl Marx
People starved because the ruler taxed too heavily. — Laozi
There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots. — Miguel de Cervantes
Iniqua nunquam regna perpetuo manent. — Seneca
Justice must not give way to policy. — Beaumont Hotham
Europe is a molehill. It has never had any great empires , like those of the Ori — Napoleon
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