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"Not every happy person is rich, and, Not every rich person is happy."
"You only become truly rich the day you possess something that money cannot buy."
"I love money because money is power, the power to invite my friends for lunch and pay the bill without expecting anything in return, the power to give twenty dollars to beggar just because I can, the power to offer an expensive remote control helicopter to children and create a huge smile in them, the power to wait for the ones you love to love you back just because you don't need to waste your time like they do."
"Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have."
"Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times."
"And were you punished? No. Why? Because you were rich.""Money and talent aren't the same thing.""That's because you can inherit money that was earned by your ancestors," said Sister Carlotta. "And everybody recognizes the value of money, while only select groups recognize the value of talent."
Explore more quotes by John Betjeman
"Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life."
"Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows."
"Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold."
"People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors."
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