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"All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth."
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"Time is the wealth through which money comes."

"The wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources."

"You can only make money from a time well converted."

"When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets."

"To misuse wealth is a great fault."

"There really is no correlation between age and one's bank balance. I've met wealthy boys and broke men."

"Try not to be like those who hunger for financial success without understanding the difference between their wants and needs."

"If you really want to be financially wealthy, you must begin to convert your time into producing something for the world."
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"In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context."

"And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned."

"Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law."

"In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose."

"The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes."

"Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time."

"The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century."
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