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Wealth and all its good things becomes with us at last habit. And habit is life.

— Thomas Dixon Jr. The Leopard's Spots (1902)

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Treason is an easy word to speak. A traitor is one who fights and loses. Washington was a traitor to George III. Treason won, and Washington is immortal. Treason is a word that victors hurl at those who fail.

The Clansman (1905)

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

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Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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