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Saturday, October 01, 2011

A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
—Henry David Thoreau

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all others - his last breath.
—Mark Twain

Health is better than wealth.
—Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
—Eleonora Duse

He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
—Benjamin Franklin

We make ourselves rich by making our wants few.
—Henry David Thoreau