Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
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One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.William Graham Sumner
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
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We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
William Graham Sumner
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
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A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
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Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.
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