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A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

— Christina Stead House of All Nations (1938)

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If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go round.

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland—the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend—the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

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