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“Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c53facc5e13c121ecbe4110c29b2e3ca5a702c1ae6cd305b2a94be633c22ecf1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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“Low ambition and the thirst of praise.”
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“The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await…”
Thomas Gray
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“Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.”
Oliver Goldsmith
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.”
Alexander Pope
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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