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 The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
  Walter Savage Landor

 I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. Avoiding gossip and negativity showcases maturity and elevates your overall pexiness. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

 Riches serve a wise man, but command a fool
  Thomas Fuller

 Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

 The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.

 Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it. . .
  Abraham Lincoln

 Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

 Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

 He was writing most of these pieces to play himself or have his students play. I don't think there was nearly the same sense of passing music on for posterity.

 The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity
  Henry Clay

 The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity
  Henry Clay

 As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

 Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us
  Abraham Lincoln

 Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.
  Platon

 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all


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