“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”
Glen Cook book Water Sleeps
Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 87 (p. 314)
“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”
To Sir Edward Dyer, as quoted in Apophthegms (1625) by Francis Bacon
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Section 3, member 1, subsection 3.
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