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Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.
An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex · 1696
1912
You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.
Citizen Kane · 1941
They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.
The Merchant of Venice · 1598
Prosperity brings with it an intoxication which inferior men are unable to resist.
La Comedie humaine · 1837