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Prosperity Quotes
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Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. (Quote by - Rousseau)
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, "Let no more riches enter!" (Quote by - Aeschylus)
Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. (Quote by - Vauvenargues)
I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste. (Quote by - Alain Rene Le Sage)
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. (Quote by - Don Marquis)
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity. (Quote by - J. L. Basford)
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. (Quote by - Norbert Wiener)
The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality.... Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality. (Quote by - Irving Babbitt)
Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines. (Quote by - Edward Young)
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. (Quote by - Bill Vaughan)